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"There's a stone in the graveyard to you," went on the Cap'n, clawing his stubby fingers into his bristle of hair, "and they've always called her 'Widder Crymble' and" he stood up again and leaned forward over the table in the attitude of Jove about to launch a thunderbolt and gasped "she's goin' to get married to Bat Reeves, Tuesday of next week and he's the most infernal scalawag in this town, and he's took her after he's tried about every other old maid and widder that's got property."
One of the favorites was that ancient one of the Western town that was so healthy they had to kill a man to start a graveyard. Having been brought up on this tradition of Western yarns, I have been surprised since living here never to have heard a single story that didn't sound perfectly reasonable. But it has dawned on me recently that the "Yarns" are true.
"We uns had er interestin meetin las night," he said meekly. "Well mus yer put on er graveyard face ter day bekase yer had er interestin meetin las night? Don't put so much gravy on yer rice, hits ergin yer helth. Maria Tappin tol me yestidy thet her brother Tom was to be nitiated las night with er good meny other uns, an I 'lowed I'd here erbout hit, as my husban was er goin.
On the Cornish shore of the Tamar River, which divides Cornwall from Devon, and a little above Saltash, stands the country church of Landulph, so close by the water that the high tides wash by its graveyard wall. Within the church you will find a mural tablet of brass thus inscribed
"He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death." Any visitor to the old James the First graveyard near Peat's Hill may spell out this bit of doggerel, undoubtedly one of the worst recorded of an Elizabethan, on the tomb of Wessel Caster.
Below him, to his left, lay the graveyard with the Solitaire erect like a bar, unstirred by the faintest breeze. From the empty field arose an odour like that of a newly mown meadow. The grey wall of the church, that wall full of lizards and planted with wall-flowers, gleamed coldly in the moonlight, and the panes of one of the windows glistened like plates of steel.
"Silas Blackburn has not gone that way in the body," Doctor Groom rumbled. The storm was more violent. It discouraged the idea of examining the graveyard again before morning. Robinson glanced at his watch. He led Bobby and the detective to the library. "Then try your scheme if you want," he said, "but understand I assume no responsibility. Honestly, I doubt if it amounts to anything.
It was perhaps at this period that the west gate of the precincts was pulled down a mediæval structure which contained at least seven rooms, and which stood at the bottom of Kirkgate. The graveyard in the middle ages contained a cross, at which a service was held on Palm Sunday; also, possibly, a mortuary chapel and a well associated with St.
Coupeau offered his services. Mon Dieu! it was very simple. You caught hold of the limbs, and pulled them off; the pieces were good all the same. But the others protested; they forcibly took possession of the large kitchen knife which the zinc-worker already held in his hand, saying that whenever he carved he made a regular graveyard of the platter.
They must be missing us awful. Somebody sing something, "Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, Whom we shall see no more! He wore a grey Confederate coat All buttoned down before " "Don't like it that way? All right " "He wore a blue damn-Yankee coat All buttoned down before " The Stonewall Brigade passed a new-made grave in a small graveyard, from which the fence had been burned.
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