The fellow who did this must have had some anatomical knowledge, unless he was a butcher, which, by the way, is not impossible.

He has used his knife uncommonly skilfully, and you notice that each arm was taken off with the scapula attached, just as a butcher takes off a shoulder of mutton.

Are there any more bones in that bag ?" "No, sir," replied the labourer, wiping his hands with an air of finality on the posterior aspect of his trousers; "that's the lot." The surgeon looked thoughtfully at the bones as he gave a final touch to their arrangement, and remarked: "The inspector is right.

All the bones of the neck are there.

Very odd.
Don't you think so ?" "You mean--" "I mean that this very eccentric murderer seems to have given himself such an extraordinary amount of trouble for no reason that one can see.
There are these neck vertebrae, for instance.