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When old New York was young (1902)

Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 270

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le family, but after a quarter of a centuryan association was incorporated to control it. Later, when the opportunity afforded, Ilooked over the specifications of that associa-tion, and found them curious reading; for [254] WHERE SILENCE REIGNS they tell that the ground is intended as aplace of… … The Dead-House in the Corner. the town. When the region about thegraveyard began to lose its sylvan character,and bosky lanes gave way to brick-pavedstreets, year by year fewer bodies were laid torest there, and after a time they were re- [^55] WHERE SILENCE REIGNS moved from the vaults and taken…

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