OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



BURYING GROUNDS 



Every considerable town requires, or will re- 

 quire at no late day, not only fields for the dis- 

 port of its living swarms, but other fields (re- 

 quiring exceptional care of their own) for the 

 interment of its throng of dead. Indeed, the 

 living can steal some chance moments of rural 

 enjoyment, by bursting into fields and gardens 

 of their neighbors, or by plunging into untamed 

 wilds ; but a man cannot steal a grave : there is 

 no larceny possible to us of some charming 

 spot upon a neighbor's hill-side where our 

 bones may rest. 



I cannot quite share in what seems to be the 

 popular disposition nowadays — to make a fav- 

 orite, if not fashionable drive of the cemetery. 

 That it should be beautiful, that it should carry 

 report of the delightsome things of every 

 season in its flowers, its fading wealth of 

 leaves, its evergreens, I can well understand. 

 But that it should be made voyant, inviting 

 chance-comers, offering views of sea or en- 

 virons, cheating one into the belief that he is 

 in a well-kept garden, and not among graves, 

 lured thither by views or prettinesses of land- 



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