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When the earth was sick and the skies were gray, / And the woods were rotted with rain, / The Dead Man rode through the autumn day / To visit his love again. / Old Ballad.
Far back in the "seventies," before they had built any Public Offices at / Simla, and the broad road round Jakko lived in a pigeon-hole in the P. / W. D. hovels, her parents made Miss Gaurey marry Colonel Schriederling. / He could not have been MUCH more than thirty-five years her senior; and, / as he lived on two hundred rupees a month and had money of his own, / he was well off. He belonged to good people, and suffered in the cold / weather from lung complaints. In the hot weather he dangled on the brink / of heat-apoplexy; but it never quite killed him.