The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-09-13
Strange Incidents attending a Death.

Under this head the Christian Register relates the
following remarkable incident The Boston Trans
crpt states that the individual referred to- is the late
MIR. Gregg, who was lost at Gloucester, Friday,
August l6, 1885, by the capsizng of boat in a
squat. 1t at Gloucester, also, on the day pre-
yious to this casualty, that his adventure with the
robin occurred; and it at Brighton, near Boston.
that his family met with similar encounter:
'The following is statement of facts as thew oc
curred,-as simple and short as we can make it, 1t
would be easy to give wide play to sentiment and
fancy, IN connection with striking and unusual an
occurrence. Superstition might attach to it irration-
al fears, or hopes as groundess. We confess we
hardly know what to do with events like these our
seves-breakng in, as they do, upon the settled or
der OF our experience, land startling us with some new
exception to the course of our observations
They evidently belong to no system of distinct and
Ineligible communication from the other world TO
this 1t IS not easy to imagine satisfactory plan of
spiritual disclosures to which they would be har-
monlously adjusted. In that sense they teach moth
lng and yet TO us they appear capable,--all mex
Phcabe and exceptional as they clearly are, and
though we cannot take the first step towards inter
pretng them,-they appear capable of leaving us
more pure, more reverenal and more believing than
they Ind US. We rejoice in religion which does not
eAciuue from It's subordinate combinations the yaguest
and most uninteigible mysteries nor forbid even
creatures less than human to be humble and dumb
witnesses to its spiritual promises
"A gentleman with some friends, was lately ram
bling over the rocks near the water in one of sea
shore towns His attention was presently attracted
by robin, full grown, and apparently quite unhur
running IN his path, fitting about his feet and con-
trary to proyerbiay shy instinct of that bird. keep
ing very near hun. He took it up in his hand fond
led 1t, patted its feathers and after showing il to the
party, and remarkng on its singular tameness, tossed
It into the air. The next day, this gentleman, hay-
ing put out from the adjacent beach in boat with
Tour others, for salon his return, and within
sight OF land, by the capszing of the boat, or sud
zen leak sprung In her, was drowned with all his
companions His body was recovered. and a few
days afterwards was buried, in cemetery some
twenty or thirty miles distant from the scene of the
disaster
The day after the burial, the grave was visited
by his wife and daughter. AS they approached the
spot, they were in hesitation for noment,-not he.
ing familiar with the place, which, of several new
made graves, was the one they were seeking Al
this instant tame but sprighty robin ran on the
ground before them, and stood by them before the
grave OF the husband and father One of them took
i up and caressed it, and after some remark about
the singuiarly Of its conduct, let it go-when il ae,y
down, alghted on the raised mound over the grave
Ind land itself close to the EARTH The dauabter i'm,
ileaiately took 1t up again, and it was deai''