Not long ago, the Rector of a parish in shire, was surprised by a request from an old woman in his village, that he would give her a seat in the church quite close to the pulpit. 'Why Molly,' said he, 'you are not deaf, you can hear my sermons very we 1 where you sit.' 'Yes, sir' said the old woman, ' that be true enough, but you see there are Retty Stubbs, and Bill Jones, and Mary Walker, sitting right in front of me with their mouths wide open and taking it all in, and by the time it is reaching o'l it is werry poor stuff indeed.' The records of the coroner's office of New York, show that sons are found dead in i .streets of the city, or in the adjacent rivers, and are buried in pauper's graves, in consequence of their bodies not being identified.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 224, 10 August 1866, Page 2
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