The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-10-10
THE DOG CEMETERY.
A SEXTON RELATES SOME CURIOUS
FACTS CONCERNING IT.
Costly Monuments Erected Over Dead
Pups by Their Sentimental OWNERSHIP
etical Epitaphs and Biblical Texts Setting
Forth the Virtues Of the Departed.

cemeteries.
On the northwestern outskirts of Lon.
don, in fine old country mansion,
surrounded by extensive grounds, lives
and labors one of thu wealthiest and
most fashionable of veterinary surgeons,
who numbers among his customers va
rious members Of the royal family, many
persons of title and distinguished lead
ers of society-in fact, his prices are so
handsome that ordinary middle class
mortals cannot afford to avail them
selves of his services.
He is dog specialist, leaving all the
remainder CT the animal kingdom il the
hands of other practitioners, and the
fact that he has made very comfort
able fortune justifes him in his exclu-
siveness And not only will he tend the
canine species when they are ailing, but
he is prepared to bury them when they
die and to bury them, moreover, with
the most gratifying pageantry and
decorum.
The cemetery reserved for this pur-
pose is in corner of field on his
estate; but, being Enclosed by wall and
planted about with trees nothing of
the interior is visible either from his
own windows or from any point of the
surrounding country, so that few, if
any, of the neighbors are aware that
such place of sepulcher exists in the
midst Of them.
"Some of the dawgs buried here"
said an attendant, showing the favored
inquirer round, "died while we had
'em under treatment in horspital, as you
may say, but many Of 'em died in their
own homes and was brought as much as
six and seven miles to their funeral"
The headstones and monuments in
this singular cemetery are as large and
often as costly as any placed above the
average human body, and the epitaphs
on them are not infrequently quite as
eulogistic.
This one here" observed the attend.
ant, pointing out particularly neat
and we'll kept grave with red marble
obelisk at tho head of it, sis where two
pug dawgs were buried. They belonged
to an old lady who brought 'em over
with her from Paris. She had 'em for
several years, and we were always be-
ing called in to doctor 'em, though they
were always suffering from nothing but
overlooking. At last one day they
were both taken i'll together-they' |
eaten something as wasn't good for 'em
and they died. She was dreadful cut
up about it-she couldn't have been
more so if they'd been children-and |
she had 'em buried here in two as neat |
little alright collins as ever you see.
She comes every now and then on Wis
1t, and she pays our gardener 20 shil-
lings year extra specially to water the
flowers she planted on the grave and
keep it all tidy.
Nov, here we have what you may
call family vault, which belongs to q
nobleman, as you see for yourself on
the tablet over the doorway. It's deep
and lined with bricks. and you go down
into it by flight of steps. There's six
lead lined coffins If you look through
the grating i'll the door, you'll see the
names and ages on the stone that covers
the opening. His lordship's uncommon
fond Of his dawgs, and whenever fresh
one dies it's brought up here and the
vaults opened for it. We've another
vault like this, which We'll come to
presently, only it belongs to lady.
"Oh, yes; think l may say every
dawg is buried in a box of some sort
and fair proportion of 'em in proper
collins, brass mounted and everything.
You'd hardly believe how some Of the
owners will cry at the funeral It's
mostly ladies that bury their pets here,
Of course. AS rule, they've got more
about this sort of thing than
men have. Nearly all of 'em come reg
ular for the first few weeks with
wreaths and punches of flowers, but the
majority Of 'em begin to drop that after
q month or two. Though there's dawg
buried yonder-see that fat stone with
a railing round it?-the old lady has
come on the anniversary of his death
every year since I've been here, and that's
nigh eight years now, and she seems
AS sorry about him still as if he'd been
a Christian like me and you"
Another remarkable feature of this
cemetery is that, besides the names and
ages Of the dogs inferred and in many
instances fiattering records of their vir-
tues, some of the tombstones are inscrib-
ed with poetical quotations and, incred-
IDLE as it may sound, even with Biblical
texts. London Tit-Bits.
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