The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-11
LITERARY
THAT BURIAL LOT
The Story Mark Twain Heard on New
Haven Steamer.

The Atlantic for October has the
following, which may be of interest:
..All the journeyings l had ever
done had been purely in the way OF
business. The pleasant May weather
suggested a novelty-namely, trip
for pure recreation, the bread-and-
butter element left out. The Reverend
said he would go, too-a good man,
one of the best of men, although a
clergyman. BY II at night we were
in New Haven and on board the New
York boat. We bought our tickets,
and then went wandering around,
here and there, in solid comfort OF
being free and idle, and of putting
distance between ourselves and the
mails and telegraphs.
after while | went to my state
room and undressed, but the night
was too entlcing for bed. We were
moving down the bay now, and it W 5
pleasant to stand at the window Aid
take the cool night-breeze and watch
the gliding lights on shore. Presently
two elderly men sat down under that
window and began conversation.
Their talk was properly no business
of mine, yet / was feeling friendly
towards the world and willing to be
entertained. l soon gathered that
they were brothers, that they were
from a small Connecticut village, and
that the matter in hand concerned the
cemetery. Said one:
"sNOw, John, we talked it all over
among ourselves, and this is what
we've done. You see, everybody was
amoyin' from the old buryin' ground,
and our folks was most about lett to
themselves, us you may say. They
was crowded, too, as you know; lot
want big enough in the first place;
and last year, when Seth's wife died,
we couldn't hardly tuck her in. She
sort O. OVERLAND Deacon Shorb's lot,
and he soured or. her, so to speak, and
on the rest of us too. So we talked II
over, and l was for a lay out in the
simitery on the hill. They want
unwilling if it was cheap. Well, the
two best and biggist plots was No.
and No. 0-both of a size; nice COM
Portable room for twenty six-twenty
six full crowns. that is; but you reckon
in children and other shorts, and
strike an average, and l should say
you might lay in thirty, or maybe
thirty-two Or three, pretty genteel-
no crOwdin' to signify
:" That's plenty, William. Which
one did you buy!
.s.Well, I'm coming to that, John
You see, No. 8 was $13, No. $l4-
~ see. So's't you took No. s.
"sYou wait. l took No. .. An
I'll tell you for why. In the tirs
place. Deacon Shorb wanted it. We
after the way he'd gone on abou
Seth's wife overlappin' his premise:
Tdabeat him out of that No. 9 If L
had to stand two dollars extra, le
alone one. That's the way l fe
about it. Says l, what's dollal
anyhowi Life's on'y 4 pilgrlmag'
says l; we amt here for good, and
can't take it with us, says l. SO
just dumped it down, KNOWN tn
Lord don't suffer good deed to 6
for nothin', and calklatin to take
out O somebody in the course O. trad
Then there was another reason, JONI
No. 9's Il long way the handiest lot
the slmeterv, and the ikeliest II
situation. 1t lays right on top of
knoll in the dead centre of the buryl
ground; and you can see Millport fro
there, and Tracy's, an Hopper Noun
and raft o farms, and so on. The,
amt no better outlook from buryi
plot in the State. ST Higgins says S
and reckon he ought to know. We
and that amt all. Course Shorb h;
to take No. s; want no help for
Now No. jinas ON to No. Q, but il
on the slope of the hill, and eve
time it rains it'll soak right dov
on the Shorbs. 81 Higgins says
when the deacon's time comes, he
better take out fire and marine inst