In the centre of this emptiness at Gagri church two trestles were put up, and the open coffin placed upon them; in the coffin, lying in a bed of fresh flowers and dressed in delicate white garments, was a little dead child.

Suddenly from his lips in surprising volume, raucous, rasping, yet with a certain rollicking deviltry fit to set the head a-tilt, burst a chanty: "Oh, their coffin was their ship, and their grave it was the sea: Blow high, blow low, what care we!

' Her face suddenly turned as sallow as the dead were, when the shroud was already on, and the coffin had become a stale added piece of room-furniture by the bed-side; but in recording that fact, I record also this other: that, accompanying this mortal sallowness, which painfully shewed up her poor freckles, was a steady smile, a little turned-down: a smile of steady, of slightly disdainfulConfidence.

The tiny coffin on the gun-carriage drawn by the cream-colored ponies was the most pathetic, impressive object in all that great procession.

But Coffin, Thompson, Hoke, and Austin are the gents to keep yore eye peeled for.

The coffin, borne by two men, was very small, the coffin of a young child.

In some instances the victims were buried "wrapped in a coarse coverlet," a coffin being too costly a luxury.

And so far nobody ain't proved Doc Coffin and Honey Hoke and Luke Tweezy are liars.

Let his Coffin Be therefore hangd up on the publique Gallowes.

The coffin is the oven, and the flower-pot is the stove.

"He has always cheated me out of my dues, and his coffins are the worst I ever put under ground.