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resting-place and would prefer to be laid with his an- 

 cestors. And so Johnnie was promptly dug up from 

 where he had been deposited with so much pomp, removed 

 across half England, and " reburied." 

 If it was true that, like so many ghosts, he was particular 

 about his tomb, I can quite understand his displeasure in 

 this instance. As I have said, I share it. 

 He lies now just outside the park where he played as a 

 child, under the lee of the little church where he said his 

 first innocent prayers, and his dust will mingle with the 

 dust of his grandsires. 



Such a quiet, peaceful spot ! Immense cornfields skirt it 

 on the one hand and on the other the great woods. 

 May I lie in some such hallowed, uncrowded acre ! 



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