Curiosity led a few to enter the hearse-like canopy, whence they immediately reissued dragging forth a priest.

They always resemble the bodies of hearses placed on boats.

Up the long hill, as I went down, came three hearses in black and silver, after the French fashion, with drivers in black coats and black-and-silver cocked hats.

Underneath this Marble Hearse Lies the Subject of all Verse, Sidney's Sister, Pembroke's Mother: Death, ere thou hast kill'd another, Fair, and learn'd, and good as she, Time shall throw a Dart at thee.

The gloom about her as she said it was like the gloom about a hearse, a tomb, a darkness of great hopeless dungeons.

Many of the black-plumed hearses are followed by only a single hired coach or omnibus, others by long trails of splendid equipages.

"The pine trees looked so gloomy then, and those great, black spruces yonder on the bank made me think of the decorations on funeral hearses years and years ago, the sort of thing one sees only in pictures; but now" "What do they let you think of now?" he asked, holding her hand in a tighter clasp, as the boat swept slowly past the funereal spruces.

For with the words which I read were all mixed up visions of crawling hearses, wails, and lugubrious crapes, and piercing shrieks of madness in strange earthy vaults, and all the mournfulness of the black Vale of Death, and the tragedy of corruption.

70 Why, then, thy flowing sable stoles, Deep pendent cypress, mourning poles, Loose scarfs to fall athwart thy weeds, Long palls, drawn hearses, cover'd steeds, And plumes of black, that, as they tread, Nod o'er the 'scutcheons of the dead?

After the hearse come members of the confraternity of Blue Penitents, one of whom carries a great wooden cross upon his shoulder.

My intention was to purchase a place in the burial-ground, and have them put into a coffin and carried in a hearse.

I heard, in a day or two, that he had actually purchased a lot in the cemetery, two or three miles below the city, that he had had a coffin made, hired a hearse and carriage, and had gone through all the solemnity of a regular funeral.

And in a humble, but a heartfelt strain Of him, the much-lov'd child of Genius sing; And place this simple, unaffected verse, With moisten'd eye upon his plumed hearse: "If all that virtue, all that fame holds dear, Deserve a tributestop and pay it here!" J.E.S. * *

An acquaintance o' my faither's looked after the cattle, and disposed o' them at Morpeth; and I, having hired a hearse at Alnwick, got the body o' my faither taen hame.

she cried, as I entered the door; but before she could rise to meet me, she got a glent o' the coffin which they were takin' out o' the hearse, and utterin' a sudden scream, her head fell back, and she gaed clean awa.

They even took the hearses out of an undertaker's yard and filled them with loot.

But now in abrupt contrast there appeared, moving as slowly and precisely after them, widely apart on either side of the stony way, two single attenuated files of but four bronzed and shabby gray-jackets each, with four others in one thin, open rank from file to file in their rear, and in the midst a hearse and its palled burden.

Hearses don't hurry, by Stephen Ransome, pseud.

Hearses don't hurry, by Stephen Ransome, pseud.

SEE Milne, William E. DAVIS, FREDERICK C. Hearses don't hurry.

Hearses don't hurry, by Stephen Ransome, pseud.

Hearses don't hurry, by Stephen Ransome, pseud.

SEE Milne, William E. DAVIS, FREDERICK C. Hearses don't hurry.

I was at once invited to "gatherings" which rejoiced in the paradoxical title of "Mum Sociables," where a penalty of five cents was imposed on each person for speaking (the revenue to go toward buying a new hearse, a cheerful object of benevolence), and the occasions were most enjoyable.

Dey didn' have no hearses dem days.