BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, 33 AND 35 CONGRESS STREET: AND TICKNOR AND FIELDS, CORNER OF WASHINGTON AND SCHOOL STREETS. MDCCCLVI. This is a very solemn service, when it is properly performed. When I was a youngster, Grossman was Sexton of Trinity Church, and Parker was Bishop. Never were two men better calculated to give the true effect to this service. The Bishop was a very tall, erect person, with a deep, sonorous voice; and, in the earth-to-earth part, Grossman had no rival. I used to think, then, it would be the height of my ambition to fill Grossman's place, if I should live to be a man. When I was eight years old, I sometimes, though it frightened me half to death, drop…
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