The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-11-27

therefore laid out as bride, in white
dress, orange-hower wreath, and vail.
The day before the funeral, the most
intimate friend of the deceased, who had
been on visit at distance, came home,
and insisted with floods Of tears that she
should be allowed to see her. The
mother most decidedly refused, explain
ing that her daughter had been the
victim of an infectious fever, and that
she could not allow the daughter of a
friend to run the risk of catching it.
The young lady persisted, and would
not leave the house; but the mother,
much as it panied her, was firm in her
refusal. However, in the evening the
young friend being on the watch, saw
the paid watcher leave the room to go
down to her supper, leaving the door
unlocked. She Immediately entered,
and having reverently kissed her friends
pale face, knelt down by the side of the
bed to pray. There were candles at
each side of the bed, at it's head, and two
placed on table at its foot.
"The poor girl was deep in her pray
ers, when suddenly, without any move
ment of warning, the dead girl sat up,
and said in a sharp tone of voice !: GU
faistu las" (What are you doing
there?) Startled and Mortified to the
last degree, her friend sprang from her
knees, and in trying to rush out of the
room, upset the table on which the can
dies were placed, and became wedged in
between it and the bed, her head down.
most! Inextricably entangled, she
shrieked loudly for help. The supposed
dead girl had a. keen sense of the ridi.
culous, and being weakened from illness,
she went off into hysterical fit of laugh
ter and the more her poor friend kicked
and screamed, the more she kept up the
duet by peals of laughter. The mother
and household hearing the noise, rushed
up as quickly as possible. The mother
was the first to enter the room, and
being a quick.witted woman, at once
comprehended the situation. She few to
her daughter. and angrily ordering her
to be quiet and not laugh at her friends
misfortune, she pressed her to her
bosom, and hastily tearing off wreath
and vail, dropped them on the floor and
kicked them under the bed then calling
assistance, she carried the girl into
another room and put her to bed. The
doctor, who had been at once sent for,
ordered her to be taken home without
delay, and they started as soon as pos
sible. She perfectly recovered: but
strangely enough, could never call to
mind the startling events Of her return
to life. She afterward married the gen.
tleman who was the hero Of the first
story. Her poor friend, when extricat-
ed from her unpleasant position, was
quite delirious she had a nervous
fever, of which she nearly died, and she
nearly died, and she never entirely re-
covered from the shock her friends sud-
den return to life had given her,"
On writing to the lady who related
these anecdotes. for liberty to publish,
she says: "You are at liberty to make
what use you like of our family story, on
condition you do not mention names of
family or places but you may add that
all three who were 80 nearly buried
alive, lived to b, very old-my father to
eighty.four, lily mother and aunt to
seventy sig, .t ming their health, rare
intelligence aLd to wonderful extent.
their personal beauty, to the last.-De.
tr0St Free Press.