Oh, lay her in a little pit,

With a marble stone to cover it;

And carve thereon a gruel spoon,

To show a "nuss" has died too soon.


VI. Off Duty

[Chapter VI.]

A Postscript.

My Dear S.:—As inquiries like your own have come to me from various friendly readers of the Sketches, I will answer them en masse, and in printed form, as a sort of postscript to what has gone before. One of these questions was, "Are there no services by hospital death-beds, or on Sundays?"