



JACK 0' LANTERN IN ARMOUR; OR, 

 TOMBSTONE TIM". 



A COUNTRY TALE. 



"Pale lights upon that tomb were seen, 

 And midnight voices heard to moan." SCOTT. 



THE 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, 

 there was something about ours which gave it anything but 



