n with their burden with renewed vigour. There was no change
from the five-kroner note.

No one could remember to have seen so long a funeral procession as that
which followed the young Consul. It reached almost from the church door,
to the gate of the cemetery, which lay in a distant part of the town. As
they began to move slowly along the road, a whole crowd of hats came
into view, hats of all kinds and shapes. There was Morten's new hat
fresh from Paris, and the well-known broad brim of Dean Sparre. There
were hats of the old chimney-pot shape, with scarcely any brim at all,
while others had brims which hung over almost like the roof of a Swiss
cottage. Some hats had a red tinge when they came into the glare of the
sunshine, while others were brushed as smooth as velvet. Twenty years'
changing fashions were blended together like a packet of "mixed drops."
Only old Anders was still constant to his cap, which was covered with
pitch as usual. A crowd of boys and children followed on both sides of
the road, and the cemetery, which lay on the slope of the hill, was
already thronged at the part near the Garmans' tomb.

At the entrance of the churchyard were planted two large flag-staves
decorated with wreaths; the flags, which were at half-mast, hung down to
the ground, waving gently in the light breeze. The town band was now
allowed a moment's rest. The whole way from the church it had played
incessantly an indescribable air; and it was only in the evening, when
an account appeared in the papers, that the air was recognized as
Chopin's Funeral March.

The precentor, with his choristers, "Satan's clerks," as he used to call
them when he was annoyed, begun to intone a psalm. The coffin was lifted
from the hearse, and carried through the cemetery, by the principal
merchants of the town.

It was a magnificent spectacle, as the long funeral procession, with
here and there a uniform, and its many flower-decorated banners, moved
majestically along through the seething crowd of women and children,
which stood closely packed on and among the graves on both sides of the
path.

The funeral party now assembled round the grave, into which the coffin
was lowered. The merchants who had carried it looked relieved when he
was laid to rest; he had been an equally heavy burden to them both in
death and in life. The singing ceased, and a silence ensued, as the
clergyman ascended the little heap of earth which had been thrown up at
the