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A Recent Remarkable Circumstance,
A RECENT REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE ,
WHICH OCCURRED IN . THE ISLE OF WIGHT . IN the month of September , last year , the body of a young woman , dressed in black silk , with a watch , a ring , and a small sum of money , was found floating near Spithead , by a lieutenant of the impress , and conveyed to Ryde in the Isle of Wight . As no person owned it , a parish officerwho was also an undertakertook upon himself to
, , inter it , for the property that was attached to it , wliich was accordingly performed . One evening , about a fortnight after the event , a poor man and woman were seen to come into the village , and on application to the undertaker for a view of the property which belonged to the unfortunate drowned person , they declared it to have been their daughter ,
. who was overset in a boat as she . was going to Spithead to see her husband . They also wished to pay whatever expence the undertaker had been at , and to receive the trinkets , & c . which had so lately been the property of one so dear to them ; but this the undertaker would by no means consent to . They repaired , therefore , to the churchyardwhere the womanhaving prostrated herself on the grave of
, , the deceased , continued some time in silent meditation or prayer ; then crying , Pillilew ! after the manner of the Irish at funerals , she sorrowfully departed with her husband . ' The curiosity of the inhabitants of Ryde , excited by the first appearance and behaviour of this couple , was changed into wonder ,
when returning , in less than three weeks , they accused the undertaker of having buried their daughter without a shroud ! saying , she had appeared in a dream , complaining of the mercenary and sacrilegious undertaker , and lamenting the indignity , which would not let her spirit rest ! The undertaker stoutly denied the charge . But the woman having secretlpurchased a shroud ( trying it on herself ) at U Ryde
y , pper , was . watched by the seller , and followed about twelve o ' clock at night into the church-yard . After lying a short time on the grave , she began to remove the mould with her hands , and , incredible as it may seem , by two o ' clock had uncovered the coffin , which with much difficulty , and the assistance of her husband , was lifted out of the grave . On opening itthe steiich was almost intolerableand stopped the
, , operation for sqme time ; but , after taking a pinch of snuff ; she gently raised the head of the deceased , taking from the back of it , and the bottom of the coffin , not a shroud , but a djrty piece of flannel , with part of the hair sticking to it , and which the writer of tins ac ' count saw lying on the hedge so lately as last month . Clothing the body with the shroudevery thing was carefully replaced ; andon a second
, , application , the undertaker , overwhelmed with shame , restored the property . The woman ( whose fingers were actually worn to the bone with the operation ) retiree ) with her husband , and has never been heard of since . T . P .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Recent Remarkable Circumstance,
A RECENT REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE ,
WHICH OCCURRED IN . THE ISLE OF WIGHT . IN the month of September , last year , the body of a young woman , dressed in black silk , with a watch , a ring , and a small sum of money , was found floating near Spithead , by a lieutenant of the impress , and conveyed to Ryde in the Isle of Wight . As no person owned it , a parish officerwho was also an undertakertook upon himself to
, , inter it , for the property that was attached to it , wliich was accordingly performed . One evening , about a fortnight after the event , a poor man and woman were seen to come into the village , and on application to the undertaker for a view of the property which belonged to the unfortunate drowned person , they declared it to have been their daughter ,
. who was overset in a boat as she . was going to Spithead to see her husband . They also wished to pay whatever expence the undertaker had been at , and to receive the trinkets , & c . which had so lately been the property of one so dear to them ; but this the undertaker would by no means consent to . They repaired , therefore , to the churchyardwhere the womanhaving prostrated herself on the grave of
, , the deceased , continued some time in silent meditation or prayer ; then crying , Pillilew ! after the manner of the Irish at funerals , she sorrowfully departed with her husband . ' The curiosity of the inhabitants of Ryde , excited by the first appearance and behaviour of this couple , was changed into wonder ,
when returning , in less than three weeks , they accused the undertaker of having buried their daughter without a shroud ! saying , she had appeared in a dream , complaining of the mercenary and sacrilegious undertaker , and lamenting the indignity , which would not let her spirit rest ! The undertaker stoutly denied the charge . But the woman having secretlpurchased a shroud ( trying it on herself ) at U Ryde
y , pper , was . watched by the seller , and followed about twelve o ' clock at night into the church-yard . After lying a short time on the grave , she began to remove the mould with her hands , and , incredible as it may seem , by two o ' clock had uncovered the coffin , which with much difficulty , and the assistance of her husband , was lifted out of the grave . On opening itthe steiich was almost intolerableand stopped the
, , operation for sqme time ; but , after taking a pinch of snuff ; she gently raised the head of the deceased , taking from the back of it , and the bottom of the coffin , not a shroud , but a djrty piece of flannel , with part of the hair sticking to it , and which the writer of tins ac ' count saw lying on the hedge so lately as last month . Clothing the body with the shroudevery thing was carefully replaced ; andon a second
, , application , the undertaker , overwhelmed with shame , restored the property . The woman ( whose fingers were actually worn to the bone with the operation ) retiree ) with her husband , and has never been heard of since . T . P .