The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-12-25

in a slagec oach." Thus was all Madame Fran
co.'s thought about the matter. .
A knock at the door was now heard, ant
Francois, opening it, Introduced Nj. Perrin, th'
rerorder of La Morgue, little old man, who
conghed necessarily. He politely protested h'
willingness to show me his establishments nno
away we went for that purpose. We went up {
fight OF steps, and, in doing So were obliged te
stand by the wall, in order TO allow bevy OF
snowy, pretty young girls to pass us, These
are four of my daughters" said M. Perrin, I" !
have eight children. Francois has had four, and
he has been SO fortunate as 10 see them all mar
red. lie is n good father, Francois"
So Thought II twelve children have been
born in the Deat- House Conjugal and do.
mestc joys, marriages and baptisns, love, reli-
glon, virtue, all have place in tins funeral IA
hove, MS well elsewhere. Meanwhile we
passed on through chambers which it is not my
purpose TO describe. until we came to the ad-
illustrative cabinet or registry office OF M. Per-
rim. | asked and received permission 10 look
over the book continuing the records of The
dead. 1t was in double columns, the one for
the known and the other tor the unknown
The numbers ofthe unknown greatly predomi-
mated. Such entries these were abundant
Brought at three in the morning: skull frac.
tured; unkno,0n.--Brought at midnight; drown
ed under the Bridge Of Arts II pack ofcartls in
the pocket: u,kno,On-Child newly born, found
dead from cold, at the door of hotel unkno,Dn."
And so on.
"Ah !" said M. Perrin to me, don't YOU
find our registers kept very nicely now My
hand does tremble little, but you may see that
II IS still u firm hand wiring for my age | have
cultivated flowing dash with some success
There is capital Nj now-neatly turned, is it
not ?"
Good, simple man! Proud only of the turn
of Il capital letter. willis, needless OF the fact that
that very letter was the commencement of IA
prince s name, of a name inscribed upon an lal-
IAN coinage. How came the name of n prince
into the pages of dead house register? re-
member the occasion, though | know not the
cause. One night when Il proud mansion was
lighted up in Paris, when lis magnificent halls
were crowded with the gay and fashionable, all
thinking only OF Lille and its enJoymenis, do
nestle, with haggard look, rushed up TO the
mistress of the dwelling who was surrounded by
the guests entertained 10y her tin her husbands
temporary absence. Tile lady had no sooner
listened to her servant than she flew from the
Assembly. The music ceased, the dancers stop
ped whispers passed among the crowd, voice
cried $40 La Morgue!" and away rushed the
whole, some of them uncloaked, some with
their heads uncovered, and all in confusion. A
strange signt II was 10 see that lately hriliiant
throng fl wing in disorder through the open Streets
in night Of storm and darkness. They reached
La Morgue one by one; and there stretched on
Il table they beheld the lord OF the mansion they
had left cold aud lifeless. The body of the
Prince--had been found in II wood in the
nvirons of the capital. How he died was un.
discovered. But opposite TO his name in the
register, there was, as nj. Perrin made
mark, the words tUeU kno,on.
To return, however, to Nj. Perrin. From the
chamber of registry we went TO another apart
ment, that in which the clothes of the dead were
kep.--There they hung upon the walls of all
forms, kinds, and dimensions, hideously coupled
together;a spatterdash joinend by pin TO a
sleeve, or shaws resting upon the col lar of a |
mans coat; dresses of gentlemen, ladies, work |
men, and i'll short; of every class mingled togeh-
er, all dirty and defaced and exciting the most |
painful impressions in the mind. One could e.
ven mark the aprons of the workmen still roll
ed up, and showing that death had surprised
hem at the end OF days common toll.
Francois, who followed my eyes in looking at
hese objects, III order observe the effect made
~ them upon me, here drew profound Sigh.
what! you then are moved at this sight?" said
o him; 'your condition is unsastactory-repug-
IAN; to you then is t2'
"Not perclsely that sir, replied Francois
'Bnt you must know, sir, that hitherto the
othes of the Unknowns have fallen TO after
icing exposed for six months We then sell
hem. Now they speak of taking The clothes from
,sm
Strange calousness ofhabit! consoled Fran
OILS by the assurance that neither the govern
nent nor the world at large spoke of taking "A
way the perquiste of the clothes.-From This
partment we now went TO the room where the
'odies were exposed; and here upon II marble
able, its sole furniture, 'beheld the three bo-
lies spoken of. The infant which had fallen
rom the grasp of its poor nurse, and been suffo-
ated III the stage.coach, was beautiful! The
ther bodies were disagreeable objects, and
urred from the sight of them.
said to Nj. Perrin when he came TO his reg
ster room again that feared he must find his
ituation tedious in the long nights of winter
No, nc" said lie in u lively tone, "my daughters
ing, and work; Francois and join our wives at
game of piquet. The misfortune is, that our
tile paryi often put into disorder. knock
rom below; we are obliged to descend, TO re- ,
Give and undress the new conner, and TO Put The
ase into register. This dsturbs our game; zoe
,rget TO make our points,"
"But your daughters are they perfect y-" {
sob! you mistake much it you imagine me
ommon spectacles to be seen here distress them
ALL" "They pass the night here with the
reatest composure and cheerlulness One grows j
any thing 1
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