Good Use for a Coflin.
A writer in the 'Anglican Church Magazine' once found in a collier's cottage in Staffordshire a coffin used as a bread and cheese cupboard. Notwithstanding his wife's remonstrance, he told the story of the coffin a3 follows : —" Eighteen years ago," he said, "I ordered that coffin. The wife and me used to have a good many words. One day she said ' I'll nivver be content till I see thee in thy coffin,' • Well, las?,'l said, 'if that'll content thee, it'll soon be done.' Next day I gave directions to have the thing made. In a few days it came home, to the wife's horror. I got into it and said ' Now, hss, art thee content ?' She began to cry, and wanted the • horrid thing' taken away. But that I wouldn't allow. In the end she got accustomed to seein' it, and as we wanted to turn it to some use, we had some shelves put in and made it into a bread and cheese cupboard. We have nivver quarrelled since it came."
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Evening Star, Issue 8772, 12 March 1892, Page 4
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177Good Use for a Coflin. Evening Star, Issue 8772, 12 March 1892, Page 4
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