The time arrived for the funeral, and the parents of the children who were to sing the hymn made them very neat and clean, and sent them to school.

I sent them to the house whence the funeral was to proceed, and the undertaker sent word that he could not be troubled with such little creatures, and that unless I attended myself the children could not go.

I told him that I was confident that the children would be no trouble to him, if he only told them to follow the mourners two and two, and that it was unnecessary for any one to interfere with them further than shewing them the way back to the school.

I thought, however, that I would attend to see how the children behaved, but did not let them see me, until the corpse was arrived at the ground.

As soon as I had got to the ground, some of the children saw me, and whispered, "There's master;" when several of them stepped out of the ranks to favour me with a bow.