escape being lynched by the people.  In spite of the dangers, however, the students volunteered to assist the doctor in the attempt, and at an appointed time proceeded to the cemetery, properly disguised, and began the removal of the bodies from the graves.  The night was intensely dark, and the wind was high, both of which circumstances favored their undertaking, but every sound, every snapping of a twig or rustling of a leaf caused them to start with alarm and gaze anxiously into the darkness.  It was near midnight when they had finished their task, and, this done, they waited in anxious silence for the arrival of the means of removing their prey.  Their movements had been accurately timed, and they had scarcely completed their labors when a cart, driven by a man dressed in the rough clothing of a laborer, approached the cemetery at a rapid pace.  Signals were exchanged between the driver and the students, and the latter fell to work to place the bodies, eleven in number, in the cart.  Having accomplished this, they covered them over in such a manner as to make it appear that the cart was loaded with country produce, bound for the city markets.  When every thing was properly arranged, the students disappeared in the darkness, each seeking the means by which he had come out from the city, and the driver, turning his cart about, drove off rapidly in the direction of New York.  It was a long ride, and to an imaginative man, carrying eleven dead bodies that had been torn from their quiet graves through the darkness of that winter night would have been a terrible undertaking.  But this man was not imaginative, and, besides this, he was keenly alive to the tremendous consequences of discovery.  He knew that he was carrying his life in his hand, and that he needed all the coolness and decision of which he was master.  Reaching the city long after midnight, he drove rapidly down Broadway and turned into Barclay Street.  The lights of the college shone out brightly, and they had never seemed so welcome as then.  The cart was driven rapidly to the college entrance, where the students were in readiness to receive it.  In a few moments the bodies were removed from the cart and conveyed to the dissecting-room, and the cart turned over to its owner.  The driver accompanied the students to the dissecting-room, and, throwing off his disguise, revealed the handsome but excited and eager countenance of Dr. Mott.  He had shared the dangers to which his pupils had subjected themselves, and had even borne the part in the enterprise attended with the greatest risk.  The affair had succeeded admirably, a winter’s supply of “subjects” had been obtained, and after this the lectures went on without interruption.