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Show IN 1HC OIO fcAC. puor OCi HiitUl l'Ues U firno1 TMI Snittit f.njr Uik.i. Thnuclili Thls liiilit bore ii tho plot where Hie Bocletr of Old Maids wti Lurled " The gu'df that showod us tliroiigh flreetiKOod cemetery inAdo tlilaratlirr queer nniiotiiiceiufnt Mlth Hint mni ehiUnt precision for whteli guides arc noted 'What do you meanr This pVc of groiiiul,' replied tlir rulde ln,thea-m tone "was Uiught by the Society of 01 1 Maids. It wa sgrecxl that tliey would all bo burled together That was a long time np Tho society don t eiltt now. Tlio h of cm was burled years nga Tho so etfty was starteil by throe tKerr There's their grares ftloii(,Me each other Tliertt'ssomutlitrtyotherstlKrr toucan seethe gravestones for our self And so fir a i could 1 on the guide was rlfiliL Tlie plot of ground nitnel to be about 40 by 40 tout llie grnM grew long flnd rank mer all of the gnuc In It, and evidently none of them had been o pencil In years. Net allot the gruMluulhen'Utuiips, soit was Imprmlhto to Jude with any aceii raey as to whieli was tho hut huuiUt lurled of tlds rather linlnue society Oro thing was certain, so far ns the gnvetofies could iruto It, mil thii n that none but uninarrleI women retted lu that (artlculAr piece ol ground. On etery stone w-u the an lioiirieeinent, so that no one coull go ftlrny( that the woman who retted bw neat 1 1 wasurpinitar. Another thing tho Ultor noticed ws thatiuoitof tho 'old maid," us they choo tn call themselves, did Ilio to 1 old inn Id s lu good sooth, for of Uiohi wlioliid liMiditoiMsf'W hil died tnitd they ha 1 attained u rlp old kv, l, I dintly rarlilng unro hud not Inu rtenej toshoilciithtlrdi)s. Hutpumplfsct this Wire found I u rnoio striking form on the IjMuMoiiMiif tho lhri sUtera Kho nru said tu have orlglnAteU tho $ clrty. Thero were soino ualnt an I (4ous Inscriptions there, nnd It was sIiqhii that all of theethn-o women had lived to be tnoro titan 100 y-nn old Ono hud Attained tho nge of 111, anl the other two lad lit ed to bo about 107 and 105, rvptvtluly. Tho lllor could not but wonder. It all could bo toll, whether some of the women whorMUd hereunder the trees may not ha bad their hnes, I licit tears aud frtrs an 1 heartaches, Just ru dothoiowho marry and nro gUcn In marriurei whetlur smnll IrageOle. ol Intuiau kind, burled with some of those splutters now sleeping so peacefully, might not June led tliem tolhethcli lives apart from tlio detotlou fit bus-ban bus-ban 1 an 1 tho loo and Ituhter ol chUlren Hut thero was no ono there to au iwerNcw oit. Iterordcr. |