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may have inspired the lark to carol so joyously as to 

 call up the "vision of poor Susan." 



St. Botolph's, Aldersgate, has one of the largest 

 churchyards in the City, but it really consists of four 

 pieces of land thrown into one in 1892, by a scheme 

 under the London Parochial Charities, which contri- 

 buted part of the purchase-money of some of the 

 land, and gives £1^^ a year for the upkeep — ;^ioo 

 being paid to them by the General Post Office, which 

 has the right of light over the whole space. One- 

 half of the churchyard is St. Botolph's, and the rest 

 is made up of the burial-grounds of St. Leonard, 

 Foster Lane, and Christ Church, Newgate Street, 

 and a strip of land which might have been built 

 on, but which, under the revised scheme in 1900, 

 became permanently part of this open space. The 

 garden is carefully laid out ; there are nice plane trees 

 and a little fountain, regular paths and numerous seats. 

 A sheltered gallery runs along one side, and in it 

 are tablets to commemorate deeds of heroism in humble 

 life — Londoners who lost their lives in saving the lives 

 of others. The church of St. Botolph was one which 

 escaped the Fire, but had fallen into such disrepair 

 that it was rebuilt, by Act of Parliament, in 1754. 

 The Act specially stipulates that none of the grave- 

 stones were to be removed, but where some of them 

 are, now that it is a trim garden, it would be hard to 

 say. Being not far from the General Post Office, this 

 garden is so much used by its officials during the middle 

 of the day, it has earned the name of the " Postman's 

 Park." 



Another much-frequented but much smaller church- 

 yard is that of St. Katharine Coleman. Suddenly, in 



