The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01

OAuO A@uhcO SplTlU, WHO was among U06
summer guests at Porcupine, was once
moved to awake the Burberry Islands
up" as he expressed it. He went over
to the island for the especial purpose of
demonstrating with them upon the
enormity of having the school-house in
the middle of the street.
Old Jacob Manley, who was school
agent, deacon of the church, sexton and
undertaken, keeper of the store, select
man, and captain and crew of fishing
smack, gave several bitches to his over
alls and lighted his pipe with great de-
liberation before he replied to the bust
ness man.
"Wall, it's sot there 3 considerable
spell, now, nigh on to twenty year, and
this is the first complaint l ever herd
of its bein' in any body's way. 1t ID be
consid able trouble to hist it, and l cal
kilate it'll hev to stay sot.'
And with regard to the old house,
which had come to an untimely halt in
the midst of its moving, Deacon Manley
was no more easy to be entreated.
"That air s the old Hadlock house,
and the Hadlocks has kinder died out, I"
he said. "Luke Hadlock's wife died
while he was movin' on It, and Luke's
sprawl seemed to kinder gin aout all to
once. He went over to the main to live
with merried darter, and she up and
died, and then he died too. They
brought him over here to be buried,
and It was q dretful mournful
kind of a funeral, SEEM that all
his family had kinder died out be-
fore him. When Hosea Lyman called
out for the mourners to foller him to the
grave it seemed real kinder lonesome
that there Want none. And he sung
'em all out, real spry and cheerful.
Hosea alwus likes to hev things done up
ship-shape, and he's master hand to
funeral, Hosea is, 'Corpse's parents =
he sung out, and they didn't come for
rud, SEEM they'd been dead more'n
forty year. 'Corpse's brothers and SIS
tiers! land there want none O. them,
SEEM he never had none except little
Cyrus that died when he was baby.
And when he come to 'corpse's cousins
there want nobody but half-witted Jake
Hadlock, a-gigglin' because he was
dressed up in his Sunday clothes and
thought twas singin' school.
{" So you see there really hain't no.
body to see to the old house, s'posin'
twas in the way"
The enterprising business man had no
interest in the "dying out :" of the Had
lock family, and the deacon's prolixity
and gentle moderation irritated him, es-
pecially as it was evident that it had a
substratum of obstinacy which no argu-
ments of his could prevail against. He
shook the dust of Burberry Island off
his feet, or would have if there had been
any, and firmly resolved to leave the
degenerate Barberry Islanders hence
forth to their own devices, though they
should all take up their abode in the
middle of the main street.
A fence suddenly arrests our foot
steps. There is gate, fastened only
by feeble and frayed rope, but there
is little temptation to venture beyond it;
marshy land, beset with Dogs and pit
falls, lies on the other side. The grassy
road has come to an end-because, as
Deacon Manley informed us, I" there
didn't seem to be no pertickler reason
for its goin' no further
1t is just beyond the burying ground
that the road comes to an end, as if,
having brought its travellers to that
peaceful bourne, its mission was accom-
plished.
The cemetery looks neglected. Evil
IDENTIFY Luke Hadlock was not the only
"corpse" whose relatives had "died
out" A tangle of grass and weeds and
running vines links the graves together !;
tho maths GRO g nact fndipo ont >,
There are many more stones than
graves. This is in memory of sea
captain who was born on Burberry ISL
and, and died in Australia; this of three
fishermen drowned off "the Banks. "
Another, of three Burberry Island boys
who were soldiers in the civil war, and
sleep in unknown southern graves
Here is one in memory of a California
miner killed by his comrade in the early
days of the gold fever. And this is
erected to twin brothers, one of whom
was drowned off Eagles Head, scarcely
q mile away, and the other died of ships
fever at Constantinople. "Lost at sea
from ship -" is the inscription on
many stones. Wanting altogether is the
familiar inscription of country church
yards:
Affections sore long time he bore,
Physicians were vain, etc.
Certainly, in the old days Burberry
Island men had sufficient enterprise to
seek what goods the gods light give
them in the four corners of the earth,
and it was given to but few of them to
die in their beds.
But the women Jared differently.
Here is an inscription that reminds us
irresistibly of the countess who
Lived to the age of a hundred and ten,
And died of a fall from a cherry tree then.
Bathsheba Ann, the widow, respective
ly, of Capt. Seth Rundlett, Zachariah
Lyman, Capt. Jacob Trueworthy, Luther
Rodick and Abijah Manley, died at the
age OF eighty of the whooping-cough!
1t is one of the hideous, old, black
stones with grinning deaths head up
on it, and directly underneath the skull
is written,
They that have seen thy look in death
No more need fear to die.
Most of the women have died at a
good old age, whooping cough not hav-
ing interviewed to carry them off. The
widow of Seth Marley, who was