Note 47 — Chapter II · Local Customs—Civic, Aquatic, Ceremonial.
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Editor’s Note.—Mr. Allen told me (1896) that attending a short time ago at a funeral in the Mount Durand, the corpse was to be carried to Trinity Church, to which of course the shortest route was down the hill, but the widow of the deceased remonstrated so vigorously, saying that she could not allow anything so unlucky to happen to her husband, as that he should start for his funeral down hill, that, in deference to her wishes they went up the hill and round by Queen’s-road.