AN IRISH FUNERAL.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "ORION."


"Funerals performed."—London Trades.

"On Wednesday, the remains of a poor woman, who died of hunger, were carried to their last resting-place by three women, and a blind man the son-in-law of the deceased. The distance between the wretched hut of the deceased and the grave-yard was nearly three miles."—Tuam Herald.


Heavily plod

Highroad and sod,

With the cold corpse clod