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possessed. After the coffin
is lowered in the grave we
had to fire a salute of three
shots over the grave. We didn't
have any blank cartridges, so
consequently we were forced
to use ball cartridges. The
crowd was told to stand back
before we fired, but you
know how a crowd is when
they are about to witness some
thing they have never seen
before in their life, they
kept crowding up until the first
volley was fired, and then you
should have seen them. I'll
bet more than one corn got
tramped on. Anyway it didn't
take them long to get back.
We couldn't here the last shot
the babies were crying so loud.