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It runs as follows: "Cost of interments, conducted by Joly, sexton of Madelaine de la Ville l'Eveque, of persons condemned by the Tribunal of the Committee of Safety, to wit, No. 1 . . . ." Then follow twenty-four names and numbers, and then "No. 25. Widow Capet: For the coffin, . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 francs. For digging the grave,. . . . . . . . . 25 francs."
When they reached the portion of the field where the interments had taken place, they let their horses nibble the grass, and silently surveyed the scanty mounds. Tournier was lost in thought, and Alice watched him. "Poor fellows, poor fellows," he said at length: "how many of them I have known! Some of them were in my squadron.
The other prisoners would try to wrest away the food, as they were driven mad by hunger. They were frequently fed with bread made from old, worm-eaten ship biscuits, reground into meal and offensive to the smell. Many of the prisoners died, and some were put into oblong boxes, sometimes two in a box, and buried in Trinity church-yard, and the boy, himself, witnessed some of the interments.
When men once became habituated to think of a barrow as not the outward and visible form of some spirit, but simply its dwelling-place still more, perhaps, if many interments took place within it, so that it became the dwelling-place of many spirits they would be led by an easy transition to think of rocks, fountains, hills, and other natural objects in the same way.
He had a vivid recollection of the difficulty of finding any kind of fabric in which to wrap the dead, when the vast number of interments had exhausted the supply of sheets. 'I would put them, he would say, 'in any old rag I could find." "If he ever left the hospital, it was to visit the infected districts, and assist in removing the sick from the houses in which they were dying without help.
That is where we have a pull upon the widows and children, many of whom, if it were not for the opinion of society, would be only too happy to save their little money, and turn it into food and clothing, instead of funeral furniture. Now here the Metropolitan Interments Bill steps in, and aims at destroying our only chances of keeping up business as heretofore.
The churchyards even then were not enclosed, but it was usual to mark their sacred character by erecting stone crosses, many of which, or their remains, are still in existence. Yet it was a long time before churchyard interments became general, the inhabitants clinging to the Pagan habit of indiscriminate burial in their accustomed places.
But our oldest churches, as a rule, have been made more notable by the political events with which they have been associated than by the honorable interments that have taken place beneath their shadow. Their connection with the living has endeared them to our memories more than their relations to the dead.
They could not be obtained at any price, and it was evident that if any were to be had, the doctor and his pupils would have to take the matter in their own hands. There was a grave-yard just outside the city, in which a number of interments had recently been made, and the doctor resolved upon securing these bodies for his dissecting-room.
In Germany the present practice appears to be single interments, and one inscription only on the stone, and that studiously brief. Eduard Schmidt Geb d. 8 Oct., 1886. Gest d. 10 Jan., 1887. This I copied in the cemetery at Schaffhausen.
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