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moments says, that, when assured of his own danger, 

 his countenance only seemed to take on a light of 

 greater happiness. He was conscious up to within a 

 few minutes of his death, and, though unable to speak 

 articulately, responded by expressions of his coun- 

 tenance to the words and looks of aifection addressed 

 to him by the dear ones surrounding his bed. One of 

 them read to him a favorite hymn, beginning with, 

 " Cling to the Comforter ! " When she ceased, he 

 signed to her to repeat it ; and, while the words were 

 still on her lips, the Comforter came at his call, and 

 bore his waiting spirit away to the heavenly com- 

 panionship for which it longed. As it left the stilled 

 temple of its earthly habitation, it shed upon the deli- 

 cately carved lines of its marble door and closed win- 

 dows a sweet gleam of the morning twilight of its own 

 happy immortality. 



A long funeral cortege attended the remains of the 

 deceased from Cambridge to their last resting place in 

 the little village churchyard of Babraham. Beside 

 friends from neighboring villages, the First Cambridge- 

 shire Mounted Eifle Corps joined the procession, to- 

 gether with a large number of the county police force. 

 His body was laid down to its last, long rest beside 

 that of his wife, who preceded him to the tomb only a 

 few days. Though Stratford-upon-Avou, and Dryburgh 



