The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-13

! riage and to have the same machine
in the churchyard to let it down into
his grave.
Another eccentric of a totally diff
ferent kind was an old bachelor NAM
cd John Little. who died in his house
at kcntiah Town in 1888 at the age of
81. SO great was his antipathy to
or, n only relative he had left. for
not continuing like himself in IL state
OF ~c"llibacN. lie was extremely penur-
loNs II hen a physician whom it
mad been necessary to call in advised
him to drink a glass of wine OCCASION
ally. he would not trust. his house,
Keeper with the key to the cellar. but
insisted on being carried into it him
self that he might bring way Il bot
tie in his own hands. AS might be
anticipated, his distrust cost his dear.
for being carried from n warm bed to
p damp vault brought on IA 'shlNer-
ing fit and in a few days he was
dead. When his keys were obtained
IL" pairs of breechcs with numerous
other articles of attire were found in
a room which had not been opened
for fourteen years and in II lookup
coachhouse $50 wigs.
In 1913 Il gentleman named Under
hill was buried at Whittlcsca, in Cam
bridgeshire. He left precise i%nstruc-
tions as to his funeral and $500 Q
to his sister on the condition that she
carried them out. No relative was to
follow his corpse, but only six gentle
men whom he named. to each of
whom he desired his sister to give
$50 and to request them not to cone
in black clothes. According to his
instructions. as O o as the burial SER
vice WAS ended. all arch was turned
over the coffin in which was placed II
small piece OF white marble bearing
the instruction Mon omnis mortar.
lI1a.' Then the six gentlemen who
followed him to the grave sang the
last stanza of the twentieth ode Of
the sccon book of Horace"
No one was invited but the six gen.
tlemen already mentioned. no bell
was tolled and there We're none of the
conventional signs of mourning. The
collin was painted green and the de-
ceased was laid in it With all his
clothes on. Under his head was plac-
leN's Milton: in his right hand was q
small Greek testament. in his left a
small edition of Horace. while I5ent-
ieN's edition of Horace was placed sub
podire. After the ceremony was over
the six gentlemen c back to the
house and, after Il cold supper sang
the thirtN-iirst ode of tho first book of
IIolttGS' NldIlN u CTceIlut glass anu
Went home about s o'clock. (Which
done" Wore the concluding words of
this ~crrcntric's will. II would have
them take Il cheerful glass and think
no moro of John Undcrhill."
A rather less poetic eccentric was a
farmer of Stcvcnage in Hcrtfordshirc.
who died on February /. 1921, and
was found to have ordered by will that
his estate, which MAS worth about g.
600 ~ wear. should he enjoyed 10y his
two brothers (both clcrgymcn) or, il
they should die. by his nephew, un-
til the expiration of thirty years, when
he supposed he should return to life
and thcn ii WAS to revcrt to him. He
also directed that his coffin should be
fine On a beam in his barn. which was
to be locked inc the key left inside,
so that he might let himself out.
Strange to say, the provisions of this
certainly more than merely eccentric
will were strictly observed. His exc
cutors let the coffin stay in the barn
IA day or two longer than the specified
thirty yeHrs-namcly from February
]. 1921 to February S, 1751-and then,
as he showed no signs of rising, then
took it out and buried it.
An old bachelor of Soho. a retired
Change alley broken. for tho last
fourteen years of his life. amused him
self by going daily in tho stage coach
from London to Greenwich and imnc-
diatcly returning in another stage
coach.