, 1896-10-21
THE DOG CEMETERY.
a SEXTON RELATES SOME CURIOUS
FACTS CONCERNING IT.


A SEXTON RELATES SOME CURIOUS
FACTS CONCERNING IT.
Costly Moaans,ts Erected Over Dead
Raps ~ Their ssntinasptal Ovssrs-Ps-
sttsal Epttapbs and Biblical Tsxes Setting
Forth the Virtues Of ths Departed.
Toilet clubs arc not the only luxury
that dogs enjoy in comaion with man.
kind; they are pampered also with
cemeteries.
On the northwestern outskirts Of Lon
don, in a fine old country mansion,
surrounded by extensive grounds, lives
and labors one Of the wcailhicst and
most fashionable Of veterinary surgeons,
who numbers among his customers va
rious members of the roTu! family, many
persons Of title and distinguished lead
ers of society-in fact. his prices are SO
handsome that ordinary mitdie class
selves Of his services.
He is q dog specialist. leaving all the
remainder of the animal kingdom in the
hands of other practitioners, and the
fact that he has made a very comfort
able fortune justifies 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 resc, we'd for this pur-
pose is in u corner OF a field on his
estate; but. being incloscd by q wall and
planted about with trees, nothing Of
the interior is visible either from his
~ windows or from any point Of the
surrounding country, 80 that few, il
any. of the neighbors are aware that
such a 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 aGt; seven uiles to their funeral"
The h%eadstones and monuments in
this singular cemetery are as large and
often IA costly as any placed above the
average human body, and the epitaphs
on them are not infrequently quite as
eulogistic.
'This one he.e," observed the attend
ant, pointing u q particularly neat
and well kept grave with q red marble
obelisk at the head Of it, "is where two
pug dawgs were buried. They belonged
10 an old lady who brought 'em over
with her from Paris. She had 'em for
several years, aud we were always be-
ing called in to doctor 'em, though they
were always suffering from nothing but
overlooking. At last II day they
were Lott taken i'll togethcr-they'd
eaten something as wasn't good for EN-
and they died. She was dreadful cut
mp about it-she couldn't have been
more SO il they'd been children-and
she had 'ens buried here in two as neat
little alright collins as ever you see.
She comes every now and then on o Wis
IL. and she pays our gardener Is ehil-
lings a year extra specially to water the
flowers she planted on the grave and
keep it all tidy.
"Now, hera we have what you may
call u family vault, which belongs to y
noblcman. as you see for yourself or
the tablet over the doorway. It's deep
and lined with bricks. and You 60 down
into it by a flight of steps There's six
dawgs down on the shelves already in
lead lined cof1lrs. II you look through
the grating iii the door. you'll see the
names and cges On the stole that covers
the opening. His lordship's uncommon
fond Of his dawss. und whenever u 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 q lady.
"Oh. yes; l think l may say every
,dawg is buried in a box Of some sort
and q 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 u rule, they've got more
sentiment about this sort Of thing than
men have. Nearly all Of EN- come reg
ular for the first few weeks with
wreaths and punches Of flowers. but the
majority Of EN- begin 10 drop that after
amonth or two. Though there's q dswg
buried yonder-see That fat stone with
. 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 abe seems
~ sorry about him still as il he'd been
. Christian like me and you"
Another remarkable feature Of this
cemetery is that. besides the names and
.ases Of the dogs inferred and in many
instances hattering records Of their viz
tues, some Of the tombatones are inscrib-
I'd with poetical quotations and. incred-
ible a. It may sound, rel with Biblical
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