A MELANCHOLY "WAKE."

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1666, 2 May 1874, Page 3

A MELANCHOLY "WAKE."

Melbourne Weetll Tinies says •—A friend from the obuntry.giv^ me'^he following :^-Li one bf ta'e riew; tofiwhips in the North-eastern dliitrict a^lrolT^^miui'r had to be^buried •pine years iigp! .inuncpnespiiated, grpurid.' A"in.ort-time^irice ,alcemeitery,wiis .pro; claimed,"and thelfariuly fesplved onhaymg the poor feUbw's resins decently: .put in holy soil. ,4.n emipty gin-case, was big enoiigl^iholdMis bbrieW*ind/beißg carefully collected, they were put m this, iTaSteneddowri; brought to the widows housei: reverentlyputiritpa full-size coffin, and then, followed by the friends of;the fdtttily within a: radius of ten miles, interred witt aU;tV^*-?^'9f-'fc^-'^u^ i?^'' The rnoujcpieW re^umfiid' tic> the. Widow's ■ • speii^^^i^ht in; drinking to jthe, memory of the Ideajfjiieparted,. A case of square gin had peeri, specially purchased *iorlhe J e^rtemment; of the funeral party ; but *heiiit waS opened the horror of the thirsyr and expectant friends must be imagined, when it was fourid that: the wrong^ase 1: had b^eri jbtiried! Twelvej good bbttleti^bf gin had been planted eight; feet und6r',the grburi3,; amidst the t'earis; and regretis of those who little knew the: heavf'lpsi toeywißTOiinflictmg on them-i ■elves when) they^Kelped to, shovel Jihel earth on top of them, and a case of dry j. jF§«^s !;^, family ofejthej, departed ifree selector had? The i wak"ing,was; /one of the soberest and saddest on record, m '^■^a.yxuC ..,', ; b-;.wV>- '■:':<<;■':> ■.:', j