WOMAN'S HOMAGE
IN STRANGEST CEMETERY In a quiet little Berkshire village near Maidenhead a woman pays daily homage to 30 dead animals in Britain's strangest cemetery. On the beautiful estate at Pinkeys Green of Mrs Horace Boot, wife of a wealthy industrialist, there is a plot containing the craves of chickens, pigs, goats, canaries, "rabbits, cats, and dogs. Each grave has a headstone bearing the carved name, age, and date of death of some former pet of hers. Mrs Boot has picked out a piece of ground, between the graves of two dogs, where she wants to be buried. " I believe my garden of rest is the only one of its kind in the country." Mrs Boot told me. When her 17-year-old rabbit died recently it was buried in a carved oak coffin, studded with brass nails.
" We have our gay times also," Mrs Boot told the Sunday Chronicle correspondent. "When the pets' birthdays come round I give them a partv on salmon and milk, served in a special tea service."
And when their last birthdays are over the quiet corner, where they will one day meet their mistress again, awaits them. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23220, 18 June 1937, Page 11
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