" 1898 TO BERNARD JOHN McGRANN WHOSE LIFE AND CONDUCT EMBODY AND ILLUSTRATE THE MANLINESS, MODESTY, AND WORTH THAT FANCY DELIGHTS TO EMBALM IN FICTION

"He is gone to heaven, embalmed with the tears of his people, and upon the wings of the prayers of the saints.

Then they put out of her way everything by which she could bring death upon herself and allowed her to spend some days where she was, since the embalming of Antony's body claimed her attention.

He was presently back at his case, embalming for posterity the knowledge that Grandma Milledge was able to be out again these sunny days after a hard tussle with her old enemy sciatica.

Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep, The punctual stars will vigil keep, Embalmed by purifying cold, The winds shall sing their dead-march old, The snow is no ignoble shroud, The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

" In the wide flare of the swinging lamp, revealing Mrs. Scogin's parlor of chromo, china plaque, and crayon enlargement, sofa, whatnot, and wax bouquet embalmed under glass, Mrs. Burkhardt stood for a moment, blowing into her cupped hands, unwinding herself of shawl, something Niobian in her gesture.

If we had observed them we might as well have been embalmed as mummies, for all the pleasure and freedom we should have had in our childhood.

There are three modes of embalming among the Egyptians: one of these consists in the injection of some antiseptic drugs previous to drying the body; but the most perfect and sumptuous is thus effected: