This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...but to strike a man is beyond all bounds of decency, and the jail or some other punishment is sure to follow. The prisoner seemed very happy under the circumstances, having a finer room than that which I occupied at Herr Sneider's, and perfect freedom to go where he pleased at certain hours of the day. From the jail I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...but to strike a man is beyond all bounds of decency, and the jail or some other punishment is sure to follow. The prisoner seemed very happy under the circumstances, having a finer room than that which I occupied at Herr Sneider's, and perfect freedom to go where he pleased at certain hours of the day. From the jail I entered the large church, situated near the centre of the village. The floor was so constructed of wood that it could be lifted up in sections, which was always done when interments took place. Here for nearly two centuries peoplo had been buried who died with the fond hope of being brought nearer to heaven by having their bodies within these precincts mado by man's hands. An old negro was digging a grave, and each time his heavy hoe (the spade is rarely used) went down, it ruthlessly crunched and smashed through skulls and ribs and whatever else is fragile in our poor human frame. The fragments were pitched up as common clay. I was disturbed in my meditations of this scene by the-fat, jolly, round padre, who, with a giggling face, gave orders, in a loud and any thing but solemn voice, to an assistant who was bearing a coffin 1 to the centre of the church. It was a small coffin, yet it was largo enough. It was uncovered, and in it lay, in the slumber of death, a little girl of twelve months. A sweet smile was upon her features; her tiny hands were clasped together, and her eyes were open and beaming with such a lovely expression that they seemed to be gazing into heaven. The tinsel and the ornaments with which the body was bedecked I scarcely saw. Three women, clad in deep mourning, and with mantillas of richest broadcloth trailing from their heads to the ground, swept noiselessly through tho church, giving one lingering look at the innocent d...
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