The rambler in Worcestershire, or Stray notes on churches and congregations Volume 3 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...178 in 1841 to 194 in 1851. On leaving the churchyard I observed an old man and his son filling up a new grave in which the body of a young woman had been buried that morning. The quantity of earth that had been dug out was much more than was required to refill the grave, and the two operators were using their best efforts to compress it into due shape. "We've plenty o' soil, aint us, William i" said the one to the other, rapping down the spade as he said it. "Ay, but him '11 sink when the rain comes on him," was the significant reply. The answer given by the humble grave-digger has very frequently since occurred to me, as a most efficient and salutary corrector of human ambition. Let each of my readers repeat to himself, when he feels a disposition to heap up this world's goods, to raise trophies of his fame, to proudly adorn his person or his habitation, or to look down with contempt on the humbler classes of society, "Ay, but him '11 sink when the rain comes on him." Cjjatolnj Cnrkett. 'Man cannot build a temple worthy of his Maker. From noble Solomon's stupendous fane Down to the humble chapel of the Quaker--All, all is vain!" £0 numerous and peculiar are the attractions in this jS'P neighbourhood--I mean, of course, such attractions jK as would captivate an antiquary--that I take no small discredit to myself for not having bent my steps thitherward at a much earlier period. Traces of a Roman road, of tumuli, and, as some believe, of a buried theatre and town--the fact that the village (still very ancient in appearance) was once the abode of a Corbett, a great Norman hunter in this part of the king's forest, and a crusader--old names and customs yet lingering here--Robin Hood, and his "merry, merry men" ...