When the bystanders recovered sufficient courage to drag the unfortunate sexton out of the pit, they found him quite dead.

Nor could I forget the humble distinction of the aged sexton, Mortefee, whose skill in psalmody enabled him to lead that wretched group of singers, whom Hogarth so happily portrayed; whose performance with the pitch-fork excited so much wonder in little boys; and whose gesticulations and contortions of head, hand, and body, in beating time, were not outdone even by Joah Bates in the commemorations of Handel!

The mouth of the tunnel was closed with brush, and the venerable sexton would not remove it until he had slowly and devoutly paced several times to and fro before the entrance.

that he could no more work a miracle than you or I. In the sight of the multitude he was only an elderly sexton with a cast in his eye, with nothing but his office to keep him out of the workhouse.

a foot from the ground, and scatter in short order,"'looking for the'"(turning to my friend, as he witnessed the successful exploit of his favorite sexton, and whispering in his ear,) "Dooke made 'em hop that time, didn't he!'general resurrection in the last day, and the life of the world to come.'

I shivered, seeing once more those grim sextons of the Pacific seaboard.

And at his bidding, 'mid these solitudes, The ebb and flow of life have poured their waves, Till Time, the hoary sexton of these woods, Despairing, broods o'er the uncounted graves.

A little sexton, with radical views: "Nowadays our fellows crawl out from all sorts of unexpected holes.

Buried beneath the earth by tiny nightly sextons, sunk beneath the waters, dissolved into the air, or distilled again and again as food for other organizations,all have had their swift resurrection.

He was a punctual sexton.

The conscience of a responsible sexton being assuaged, Bartholomew's expression mollified into that of the flattered poet.

In Langdale Pike and Witch's Lair, 350 And Dungeon-ghyll so foully rent, With ropes of rock and bells of air Three sinful sextons' ghosts are pent, Who all give back, one after t' other, The death-note to their living brother; 355 And oft too, by the knell offended, Just as their one!

This wretched doggerel, over the world's greatest poet, was intended, no doubt, as a warning to some stupid sexton, lest he should empty the grave and give the honored place to some amiable gentleman who had given more tithes to the parish.

Buried beneath the earth by tiny nightly sextons, sunk beneath the waters, dissolved into the air, or distilled again and again as food for other organizations,all have had their swift resurrection.

" Mrs. Waters followed, and leaning out of the window watched with simple pleasure the efforts of the amateur sexton.

To birds of taste delicious meat.' A sexton, busy at his trade, To hear their chat suspends his spade.