Show FUNERALS IN SCOTLAND A funeral in scotland years yeara ago was wag a feast and sometimes a fortune for tutie tulie was well mell difili nig h consumed in celebrating the great event in the account ot of the funeral expenses of sr si hugh campbell of calder or cawdor there were for tor an y of food rood and drink consumed at the funeral of aira mrs forbes of culloden cun Cin loden the mourners all got drunk the festivities were conducted by her son durcan darcan well known as the lord lora president forbes the company sat so long and drank BO so freely that when the word was given for the procession to formy forms form and for the mourners to march to the burial ground the coffin was mas forgotten the whole troop of j j ly mourners mour neri folind rolind themselves at the grave with nathine no thine to put in it special messengers were sent back for the poor dead lady ladys whose remains were then deposited in the grave with all the decorum which could be mustered under such anti funeral inces 1 2 nor were such death scenes peculiar to the highlands there is a singular sory bory told of lord on the authority of auchinleck james boswells swella Bo father on the day of lord I 1 For glens death his hia physician called on him birn as usual how does my iny lord do doa inquired the doctor as he entered the home houie 61 41 61 1 I hope be heb hes well answered the man manservant servant with a solemnity which told what he meant the doctor was then shown into a room where two dozen of wine were laid out under a actable table other persons presently came in and the manservant making them all sit down began to describe to them hig bis masters last moment moments sp and at the same time to push the bottle about briskly after a glass or two the company rose to depart but they were detained by the man noa koa nos no no gentlemen n not ot 8 go 0 he said 1 I it t was A as the express will wiil 0 the dad di ad that I 1 should fill ye te a fou ard I 1 maun fulfill f ul ifill the will u the dead and indea d bild the doctor who mho afterwards told lie he story he iid ild lid did fulfill the will ol 01 0 the dead for beroe the end ot olt there was na ane 0 us able to ain am |