On the contrary, she turned a little pale,--but smiled brightly and said,--Yes, with pleasure, but she must walk towards her school .-- She went for her bonnet .-- The old gentleman opposite followed her with his eyes, and said he wished he was a young fellow.

Presently she came down, looking very pretty in her half-mourning bonnet, and carrying a school-book in her hand.] MY FIRST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
This is the shortest way,--she said, as we came to a corner .-- Then we won't take it,--said I .-- The schoolmistress laughed a little, and said she was ten minutes early, so she could go round.
We walked under Mr.Paddock's row of English elms.

The gray squirrels were out looking for their breakfasts, and one of them came toward us in light, soft, intermittent leaps, until he was close to the rail of the burial-ground.

He was on a grave with a broad blue-slate-stone at its head, and a shrub growing on it.

The stone said this was the grave of a young man who was the son of an Honorable gentleman, and who died a hundred years ago and more.
-- Oh, yes, DIED,--with a small triangular mark in one breast, and another smaller opposite, in his back, where another young man's rapier had slid through his body; and so he lay down out there on the Common, and was found cold the next morning, with the night-dews and the death-dews mingled on his forehead.
Let us have one look at poor Benjamin's grave,--said I .-- His bones lie where his body was laid so long ago, and where the stone says they lie,--which is more than can be said of most of the tenants of this and several other burial-grounds.
[The most accursed act of Vandalism ever committed within my knowledge was the uprooting of the ancient gravestones in three at least of our city burialgrounds, and one at least just outside the city, and planting them in rows to suit the taste for symmetry of the perpetrators.