"At three-forty P.M., as the services neared their close, a violent change took place in her appearance, and she uttered in shrill tones those astonishing words which horrified all below and made us feel that she had a clairvoyant knowledge of the closing of the casket, then taking place: "'Break it open!

His stolid face had remained stolid even when the ring which had fallen out of his sister's casket was shown to the jury and the connection made between its presence there and the intrusion of his hand into the same, on the occasion above mentioned.

" "Had you seen the casket itself prior to this moment of which you speak?" "I had not.

" "Mr. Cumberland, more than one witness has testified to the fact of your having been seen to place your hand in the casket of your sister, before the eyes of the minister and of others attending her funeral.

But this was checked almost immediately, and Mr. Moffat's voice was heard rising again in his strange but telling examination: "When you thrust your hand in to take this oath, did you drop anything into your sister's casket?"

The question as to who had dropped the ring into the casket if Arthur had notthe innocent children, the grieving servantswas latent, of course, in every breast, but it had not yet reached the point demanding expression.

The ring found in the murdered woman's casket, the remnants of the tell-tale bottle discovered in the Cumberland stable, and the opportunity for crime given by the acknowledged presence of the defendant on or near the scene of death.

My client has denied that he dropped anything into his sister's casket, much less the ring missing from that sister's finger.

Among the ten other persons who dropped something into that casket.

Arrived in the presence of Aurelian, and at the conclusion of his complimentary harangue, the chief envoy produced a cedar casket, from which he drew a purple robe of such surpassing refulgence, that, in the words of the historian who has recorded the transaction, the purple of the emperor and of the matrons appeared ashy grey in comparison.

O Lychorida, bid Nestor bring me spices, ink, and paper, my casket and my jewels, and bid Nicandor bring me the satin coffin.

I asked to see the dead man's face, As I gave the servant my well-filled basket; And she deigned to lead me, a wondrous grace, Where he lay asleep in his rosewood casket.

" Then followed a whirlwind; and Teppich rose with his moustache bristling, and the ready Nesbit jerked him down again in the opening sentence; and everybody laughed at Heywood, who sat there so white, with such large eyes; and the dinner going by on the wings of night, the melancholy "boy" circled the table, all too soon, with a new silver casket full of noble cigars from Paiacombo, Manila, and Dindigul.

and now this lovely frame Lies tenantless, a casket whose pure gems Now sparkle 'mid the opal lights of Heaven.

what dost thou bear, Locked up within the casket of thy breast?

They say they are sure it was he, by the same token that they saw her slip into his hand, when she was past the door, the casket which you gave her.

MARIAN You will excuse me(goingturning back.)You will remember the casket?

I come about a casket.

Do you know any thing of a casket? MISS FLYN

, she has confessed to this casket.

The casket MISS FLYN Let me clear up the rest.

The casket MISS FLYN Was inadvertently in your daughter's hand, when, by an artifice of her maid Lucy,set on, as she confesses, by this gentleman here, DAVENPORT I plead guilty.

And let the prejudiced against our profession acknowledge, that a money-lender may have the heart of a father; and that in the casket, whose loss grieved him so sorely, he valued nothing so dear as (turning to Marian) one poor domestic jewel.

"Searching the person whom he suspects of having stolen his casket."Dr.

The ivory casket.

The most prominent leader developed by the movement was Levi Coffin, whose daring deeds in behalf of the fugitives made him the reputed President of the Underground Railroad.

[Footnote 9: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, chaps, i and ii.]

[Footnote 11: Coffin, Reminiscences, p. 109; and Howe's Historical Collections, p. 356.]

[Footnote 13: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, pp.

[Footnote 42: Father Henson's Story of his own Life, p. 209; Coffin, Reminiscences, pp.

According to Levi Coffin, these contrabands were, in 1864, disposed of as follows: "In military services as soldiers, laundresses, cooks, officers' servants and laborers in the various staff departments, 41,150; in cities, on plantations and in freedmen's villages and cared for, 72,500.

See also Coffin's Boys of '61.]

[Footnote 37: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, p. 671.]

Eleseus acted as host, and served out refreshments to the guests; ay, and when the body was carried out, and they had sung a hymn, Eleseus actually said a few suitable words over the coffin, and his mother was so proud and touched that she had to use her handkerchief.

He told how he had been over to the neighbouring village to bury his uncle, and did not forget to mention the speech he had made over the coffin.

(Philadelphia and Savannah, 1858.) COFFIN, JOSHUA.

Her clothing was a shroud; she lay in a coffin among other coffins in a damp and hideous vault.

Taking the limit we have set, and enumerating the parts within the hoof from within outwards, we find them as follows: A. THE BONES.The lower portion of the second phalanx or os coronæ; the third phalanx, os pedis, or coffin bone; and the navicular or shuttle bone.

THE ARTICULATION OF THE SECOND PHALANX WITH THE THIRD, THE PEDAL, OR THE COFFIN JOINT.This also is an imperfect hinge-joint, permitting only of flexion and extension, which movements are more restricted than in the previous articulation.

When we reached the church-yard, the blacks of the family pressed forward to bear the coffin into the building.

It was a terrible moment when the first clod of the valley fell on my sister's coffin.

Hours has she passed, weeping on my bosom, and I much doubt if the image of Grace has been absent from her waking thoughts a single minute, at any one time, since we first laid your sister's head in the coffin.

Slaves complain very little when sick, when they die they are frequently buried at night without much ceremony, and in many instances without any; their coffins are made by nailing together rough boards, frequently with their feet sticking out at the end, and sometimes they are put into the ground without a coffin or box of any kind.

" Dust to dust,and the earth fell with a dull echo on the coffin.

Our coats and customs soften, To rise would only make ye weep Sleep on, in rusty iron sleep, As in a safety-coffin!

It was not until last night, when I had broken that last obstruction down and discovered nothing but this coffin, that I learned his real plan.

"You see," Grim explained, sitting on the edge of the stone coffin, "we could hold Jerusalem.

" While we waited we tried to get an opinion out of Scharnhoff about the coffin and the skeleton inside it.

The coffin is beautifully shaped out of one solid piece of stone, but that is all.

It has left me, Father, like Mohammed's coffin, suspended.