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Excerpt from Bentley's Miscellany, 1846, Vol. 19
The call was promptly obeyed, and the churchman introduced to the cabin, and left alone with a stranger, who was at that moment about to exchange time for eternity; for ere half an hour had elapsed, the priest announced that the spirit had departed. The schipper and the headsman again retired to the cabin, where they remained closeted for another hour with the churchman. At the termination of the se cret interview, the body of a female, carefully wrapped up, was depo sited in the headsman's boat, and a fine child six months Old placed in the priest's arms, while a parting injunction was given by the schip per, that the corpse should be decently interred, and the infant care fully attended to. Something private passed in a whisper, - the heads man pushed Off with his dead and living freight, - the lugger filled her sails, - the haze of night soon shut the smuggler and the boat from each other's view, and, with a far different cargo than they had ex pected to bring back, the islanders returned to their lonely rock.
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