"What are you reading, 'Bitha?" Dorothy asked; and the little girl came close beside her.
It was Aunt Lettice's "Church Book;" and on the titlepage was:—
"A NEW VERSION OF
the
PSALMS
of
DAVID,
fitted to the Tunes ufed in the Churches:
With feveral Hymns
Out of the
Old and New Teftaments.
By John Barnard,
Paftor of a Church in Marblehead."
In the back part of the book was the music of several tunes such as were used at that time in the churches; and amongst them was one known as
"Marblehead."
music score
* Copied literally from publication "printed by J. Draper for T. Leverett in Cornhill 1752."
Good Parson Barnard had years since been laid away in his grave on the old Burial Hill, which rose higher than all the land about, as though Nature were seeking to lift as near as might be to the skies the dead committed to her care.