The barrel lid closed on Diddy, blotting out even the fleeting light of the storm.

"You would say it means Father ... Father of Life," YTVENTY-EIGHT "IT IS a slim chance, but it is a chance," said Durwin, lifting off the first of the water barrel lids.

A hole the size of the barrel opening was incised in the top, the barrel lid readied, and with the help of grimly anxious volunteers the terrible creature was transferred from barrel to cage.

Beatty relates how gases from the corpse caused the barrel lid to open on 28 October 1805, alarming the posted marine guard.

Gradually the lid lifted up, and I was on the point of yelling to the others when I saw a pair of beady little eyes twinkling at me from under, the barrel lid.