p019_Diary of Martha Call

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There are thousands of beautiful monuments, among
others, three erected in memory of firemen, who died in
the discharge of their duty. One of them lost his life
in trying to save a little child, and he is represented
on the top of the monument, with the child in his
arms. The most costly monument is one to Miss Canda
a beautiful young lady who was killed by a fall from
her carriage on the evening of her seventeenth birth-day.
It is very large and elaborately carved from white
marble, and in a niche of the main part is a statue
of Miss Canda herself, while at a little distance from
it on each side are angels, one weeping, the other
rejoicing. It is said that she being an only child,
and her father very wealthy, he has expended what
would have been her fortune on her grave. There
are also many splendid tombs, but to me, it always
seems as if it must be far less painful to lay a
friend in the earth than in a tomb. It was about
noon when we reached the house, and at three oclock
the children began to return from school. The children
are eleven in number, all but one of them being at
home. The oldest, Lizzie, is a very intelligent looking
girl of seventeen years, the youngest, Maggie, is a very
pretty baby of four weeks, while between them come Mary
and Walter, Nattie, John, Cara, Phoebe, Willie, Mason and
Emmie. A prettier family in every respect it would be
impossible to find, and Cara presides over the whole