Excerpt from The Eclectic Almanac, for the Year 1839: Being the Third After Bissextile or Leap-Year, and After the Fourth of July, the Sixty-Fourth Year of American IndependenceI stopped at an inn, a two story brick building, standing back from the road.In the morning I rose early and took a look from the window, but the prospect was very uninviting. Afar, in the most distantpart of the field, a man was busily engag cd in digging a grave. There was something within that impelled me to stroll forth and accost him. I passed 011 to where the grave digger 11 as pursuing his occupa tion. He answered my morning sahrtation civilly efiough, but con tinned intent upon his work. He was a man about fifty years of age, spare, but strong. With gray hair and sunken cheeks, and certain lines about the mouth, which ar gued _a propensity to indulge in dry jest, though the sternness of his gray eyes seemed to contra dict the tacit assertion.

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