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"What is it the hearse-house?" asked Paul. "No; I think they don't use hearses much here. It is a bone-house." "A what!" exclaimed Shuffles. "A bone-house, or reliquaire. The poor people in this part of France are very ignorant and superstitious.
The leaves of the hearse-house door are fastened together by a hasp and pin, so that any one may enter at will. But there is no need of bolts and bars. The boys, at play, in the evening, at "I spy" or "hide and seek," never go there for concealment, although their smothered whoops may be heard issuing from every other dark corner in the neighborhood.
It was exasperating to think of the public spirit at Egypt, and contrast it with the state of things at Pleasant River. In Egypt, they had sold the old hearse-house for a sausage-shop, and now they were having "hearse sociables" every month to raise money for a new one. All these details flew through Aunt Hitty's mind in fascinating procession. There shouldn't be "a hitch" anywhere.
The narrow space between the hearse-house and the sheds forms a short lane or passage-way, through which all the funeral processions pass from the street into the burying-ground, lying behind the sheds, on the western slope of the ridge upon which the village stands. This ancient cemetery was laid out by the early settlers, when they made the first allotments of land.
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