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JACK <r LANTKEN IX AEMOCE; OE, 

 TOMBSTONE TIM. 



A COUNTRY TALE. 



" Pale lights upon that tomb were seen, 

 Ami miiluiulil voices heard to moan." -S< OIL 



TIIK church of our native village stood upon a high eminence 

 overlooking a marshy valley ; the village itself being a good 

 mile distant, seated on the opposite bank of a narrow stream 

 which wound through the damp meadows intervening. Al- 

 though most decidedly a country church, and a very old one, 



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there was a something about ours which gave it anything but 



