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Show I A Curious Burial. The wishes of a curious character, who was named Hilkington, better known as Squire Hawley, were fully carried out a few years ago at n place near Doncaeter. He was buried in his own garden, amid the graves of his dead cattle, which had been stricken down by rinderpest. He was laid out in full limiting costume, including spurs and whip, and was placed in a stone coffin weighing upwards of a ton, which had to be lowered into the grave by means of a crane. His old pony was shot and buried at his feet, and at his head was laid the bodies of his favorite dog and an old fox. All his property was left to his groom on condition that these funeral fu-neral observances were fully carried out; in default the estate was to go to the priest of Doncaster for the benefit of the Roman Catholic church. Tho groom, however, did not suffer the bequest to himself to lapse. Cassell's Journal. I |