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Mortcloke the undertaker did accordingly, with a visage of professional length and most grievous solemnity, distribute among the pall-bearers little cards, assigning their respective situations in attendance upon the coffin.
"I say, what's the idea of the pall-bearers?" The youth's expression froze to one of disapproval and suspicion. "I mean the parade. Are these fellows Congress- or minstrel-men?" His hearer shrugged and smiled vacuously, then turned away, whereupon Mitchell took him firmly by the arm. "Look here, my boy," he began. "There seems to be a lot of information coming to both of us.
Nothing moved in the solemn chamber of the committee but the voice of an old forsaken man, sobbing bitterly. The funeral was over, and Mr. Reybold marveled much that the Judge had not put in an appearance. The whole committee had attended the obsequies of Crutch and acted as pall-bearers.
They done th' best they cud f'r th' Connock man back iv th' dumps, give him all th' honors, th' A-ho-aitches ma-archin' behind th' hearse an' th' band playin' th' Dead March, 'Twas almost as good a turnout as Grogan had, though th' Saint Vincents had betther hats an' looked more like their fam'lies kept a cow. "But they was two hacks back iv th' pall-bearers.
"Oh, it is the nutcracker!" said one, "the musician, you know " "Who can the pall-bearers be?" "Pooh! play-actors." "I say, just look at poor old Cibot's funeral. There is one worker the less. What a man! he could never get enough of work!" "He never went out." "He never kept Saint Monday." "How fond he was of his wife!" "Ah! There is an unhappy woman!"
What strange companions for my pall-bearers! Unwieldy sea-monsters, the stories of which are counted fables by the spectacled collectors who think their catalogues have exhausted nature; naked-eyed creatures, staring, glaring, nightmare-like spectres of the ghastly-green abysses; pulpy islands, with life in gelatinous immensity, what a company of hungry heirs at every ocean funeral! No! No!
Acting on these considerations, we all three turned in; and for the next half-dozen hours I lay dreaming of a great funeral among barren mountains, where white bears in peers' robes were the pall-bearers, and a sea-dragon chief-mourner.
Dolly had objected to Billy as one of the pall-bearers. He was too short and inferior looking, she said, and not at all in harmony with Dick, and Fred, and Paul Crosby, the young man who, in Harold's absence, had been asked to take his place. But Arthur overruled her with the words 'It was Maude's wish, and Billy kept his post.
The coffin was then carried by the pall-bearers to the library-room, in the basement of the chapel, where it was lowered into the vault prepared for its reception. The funeral services were concluded in the open air by prayer, and the singing of General Lee's favorite hymn, commencing with the well-known line
The coffin was brought into the school-room by six boys, who had been appointed pall-bearers, and I read the opening sentences of the burial service and special psalms and lessons; then, after a hymn, was the sermon, from I John iii. 2, "We know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is," and I read some extracts from William's diary, which he had commenced keeping four years before; they show what the boy's thoughts were and how near he lived to his Saviour.
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