I would like to share with you a tribute I read in my local newspaper I enjoy the style of writing and underlined my favourite section.
Last Sunday died suddenly in an advanced age, one Ann Harper, a single woman who had been upwards of 20 years a pauper in the parish of xxx. This truly good old woman was universally esteemed, met with the countenance and friendly assistance of many respectable persons, and upon her death a very handsome coffin was provided for her at the expense of some worthy ladies in that place. Her corpse was carried by six young single men who had gloves given them, and over the coffin was suspended a white sheet by way of canopy, supported by six single women who raised a subscription among themselves for a necessary refreshment on the occasion, and to drink to the pious memory of a woman of so exemplary a life and conversation, though in so low a sphere of existence. - Wow what a description!
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