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Tie husband Of :he dead woman came, stag
gpring out, with her body upon his siloldeIs,
s!igttiy covered with a piece of rotten can
NaSs. will not dwell upon the details of
this spectacle. Painfully and slowly he
bore tie remains Of the late companion of
lis misery tothe cart. Wefallowed him a
little way off, and saw him deposit his bur-
den along side of the father Of the Young
woman, and by her assistance. As the two
started for the graveyard 10 bury their dead
we pursued our walk still father on, and
entered another cabin, where we e~ncount-
cred the climax of human misery. Surely,
Thought I, while regarding this new phenom-
enon of suffering there can be no lower deep
than this, between us and the bottom ofthe
grave. v
On asking after the condition. of the in
mates, the women to who we addressed the
question answered by taking out of the
straw three breathing skeletons, ran ging
from two to three feet inheight, and entire
~ naked; and these human things were a.
live! If they had been dead they could not
have been such frightful spectacles. They
were alive; and, wonderful to say, they
could stand upon their feet, and even walk
ed; but it was awful to see them do it.
Had their bone: been Invested of the skin
that held them together, and been covered
with a veil of thin muslin. they would
not have been more visible. Especially
when one Of them chung to the door while
a sister was urging it forward, it assumed
an appearance which can have been Sc
ldom paralleled this side of the grave.
The effort which it made to cling to
the door disclosed every joint in its frame
while the deepest lines of old age furrowed
itsface. The enduring Of ni1ety years of
sorrow seemed to chronicle its record Of
woe upon the poor child's countenance. I
could bear no more; and we returned to
Skibbereen, afterhaving been all the after
noon among those abodes of misery. On
our way we overlook the cart with the two
uncofined bodies. The man and young
woman were all that attended them to the
grave. Last year, the funeral of either
would lave called out hundreds of MOURN
ers from those hills; but now the husband
drove the uncofined wife to the grave with
a tear in his eye, without a word of sor-
About half way to Skibbereen DIR. Had
den proposed that we should diverge to an
other road to visit n cabin in which we should
find two little girls living alone, with their
dead mother, who had lain unberried Sc ven
days. He gave an affecting history of this
poor woman; and We turned from the road
to visit this new scene of desolation; but as
was growing quite dark, and the distance
was considerable, we concluded to resume
our way back to the village. In fact / had
seen as much as my heart could bear.
In the evening met several gentlemen
at the house of Mr.. Swanton, among whom
was DR.. Donovan. He had just returned
rom a n%eighborirg parish, where he visited
4 cabin which had been deserted by the poor
although it was known that some of
its inmates were still alive, though dying in
the midst of the dead. He knocked at the
loor, and heard no voice within, burst it
open with his foot, and was in a moment al
most overpowered by the horrid stencil
a mans legs protruding from the
straw, he moved them slightly with his foot,
when a husky voice asked for water. In
part of the cabin, on removing a
of canvass, he discovered three dead
which had lain there an6urledf for a
f~Jrtnight and hard agains. one of these,
md almost embraced in the arms of death,
a. a young person far gone with the fever.
He related other cases too horrible to be