A PATHETIC SCENE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8827, 31 May 1907, Page 4

A PATHETIC SCENE.

Iftbere is but a stop between the stibium and the ridiculous, as little distance divides the truly pathetic from the irresistibly comic. Some time ago a clergyman and a sexton met at the little cemetery of Congleton, Cheshire, to await the arrival of a funeral cortege. They waited long past the appointed hour, but no one arrived. At last the sexton went to the gates of the cemetery. There ho discovered a small hoy with a perambulator, which was covered with brown paper. “ Stand aside, sonny, there is a funeral to come,’* said the sexton, kindly. “ Please sir, I’m the funeral!” answered the boy. The man removed the covering from the perambulator, and found a tiny coffin containingjthe bodies of two babies. The coffin and the interment fees had been paid by a relieving officer; the child’s parents were unable to attend, and so the little chap with thej perambulator bad come alone, to see the melancholy business through.. and. simply to declare himself the funeral.