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All About Our World

James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist
J.C. Ridpath

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were here, garnered as grain from the reaping until the bins be
opened at the last day's threshing when the chaff shall be driven
from the wheat. 

Here the thoughtless throng looking through the iron railing may
see the old weather-beaten and time-eaten slabs with their
curious lettering which designate the spots where many of the men
of the pre-revolutionary epoch were laid to their last repose. 
The word cemetery is from Greek and means the little place where
I lie down.  

In the Granary Burying Ground are the tombs of many whom history
has gathered and recorded as her own.  But history looks in vain
among the blue-black slabs of semi-slate for the name of one who
was greatest perhaps of them all; but whose last days were so
strangely clouded and whose sepulchre was so obscure as to leave
the world in doubt for more than a half century as to where the
body of the great sleeper had been laid.  Curiosity, whetted by
patriotism, then discovered the spot.  But the name of another
was on the covering slab, and no small token was to be found

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