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Excerpt from Fresh Leaves and Green Pastures
IT was Only the other day that a man turning up the ground on a bare hill-side, whereon no digging had been done since the days of the Romans, came upon what appeared to be a coffin. A square end protruded from the dip which had been hollowed out to make a tennis lawn. Some one who knew happened to be on the spot; careful investigation of the ground was made, and finally a species of lid, sides and ends were uncovered and on the bare ground lay a few tiny bones, and the skull of a grown up person who once, before history was written down, walked over the exquisite downs around his burial-place and took his part, no doubt, manfully, in the life that surged around him. Or, indeed, it might be the skull of a woman; albeit the length of the coffin denoted it had held a creature above the average height. Some.
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