... "Take we these remains with us, and by means of them prove the truth of our science before the people of Gaur, to the offence of their noses.[FN143]" Being now possessed of knowledge, they resolved to apply it to its proper purpose, namely, power over the property of others. Accordingly, the wencher, the gambler, and the atheist kept the Kanjar in conversation whilst the thief vivified a shank bone; and the bone thereupon stood upright, and hopped about in so grotesque and wonderful a way that the man, being frightened, fled as if I had ... — Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton
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