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her a widow, is she to be burdened with the duty and vested with the charge of their three bodies against the expressed wishes of the blood relatives and next of kin of each? The court must have had in mind the woman who had been married seven times, of whom it was asked the Master, whose wife would she be in heaven. Remembering the answer, the court evidently concluded that it was foolishness to place upon the widow the duty of looking after the remains of all her husbands as there would be no reward afterwards for her labors. Or the court may have had in mind a canon law of Europe

which provided that a wife was to be buried with her last husband, and hence it only be came her to concern herself about the re mains of the last loved one. It is not to be wondered at, with such a premise, that any court might easily have led itself to believe that any able-bodied woman, who had been thrice married and thrice a widow, would undoubtedly have many more matrimonial adventures before her career was ended, so that it was too early in the game to look for the last one which would yield sepulture by his side.