ugh irresponsible tools which I have used, I
would point out that from either road, that to Bewick to the right or
that through the woods to Longwood on the left, there is direct water
carriage to the secluded lawn beneath Deep Moat Grange. In case of
necessity, supposing that the 'accident' has befallen on the Bewick
road, you can load your boat by the bridge near to the darkest part of
the wood behind the Bailiff's houses, and then, sculling lightly, you
are carried all the way by the current of the Backwater without leaving
a trace. If the game has been played on the highway to the right, then
there is equally good going across the pond. It is recommended that
the boat, being probably heavily burdened, should return by the north
side, where I have planted certain rows of weeping willows, which not
only afford a grateful shade, but are seemly in the circumstances.

"It was, however, Miss Orrin (a clever woman in her way) who had the
best idea as to the final disposition of the frail but compromising
relicts of mortality, thus appropriately transported under my weeping
willows to their final resting beds. She made perennial flower pots of
them, and nowhere could be seen such display of varied beauty as she
obtained from cold, useless clay!

"Personally, I have always been opposed to the general uselessness of
graveyards and cemeteries. Nothing is better suited to enrich the soil
than the material which Jeremy supplied. It is far before phosphates,
about which there has been so much talk these last years. So I was
greatly content when Miss Orrin--to whom of necessity I had to confide
the secret of Jeremy's unfortunate tendencies, in order that she might
use her influence to direct it for our mutual advantage--discovered a
means at once of security and of utility by planting masses of lilies
in heart-shaped plots all about, wherever Jeremy had found it necessary
to disturb the soil. I believe that Miss Orrin attached some subtle
meaning to the lilies. Indeed had I not prevented her, she would even
have made the plots of the shape and size of coffins--which certainly
shows a trace of the family failing.

"But this was, of course, impossible. I had, how ever, good reason to
be content with our new arrangement. The old, difficult (though
perfectly safe) interment in a doubly tenanted grave, with all its
annoyances of being on the spot myself, of scaling walls and keeping
Jeremy to his labour, was all done away