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Excerpt from Standish of Standish, Vol. 2 of 2: A Story of the Pilgrims
Mistress Carver had made but one request, and that of piteous earnestness, See that they make his grave where another may be dug close beside, pleaded she, and John Howland had seen that it was as she desired.
Earth to earth was reverently and silently laid, the grave was covered in, and then, at the captain's signal, the twelve muskets were fired in relays of four, and their mournful echo mingled with the sobbing dirge of the waves breaking upon the Pilgrim Rock, While the dense column of smoke rising grandly to heaven was the only monument then or ever erected to John Carver, that willing martyr and gallant gentleman who had in deed given his life for the brethren.
Returning to the Common house the Guard of Honor joined with the rest of the townsmen in a Council, whereat they elected William Bradford to be their second Governor, and as he now lay ill in his bed, Isaac Allerton was chosen to be his Assistant and mouth piece.
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