"If he spells leather lether, and feather fether, isn't there danger that he'll give us a bad spell of weather? "Besides, Webster is a resurrectionist; he does not allow u to rest quietly in the mould.

"If he spells leather lether, and feather fether, isn't there danger that he'll give us a bad spell of weather? "Besides, Webster is a resurrectionist; he does not allow u to rest quietly in the mould.

Cobbett himself gained nothing by this resurrectionist performance, except an additional couplet in the party-songs of the day: "Let Cobbett of borough-corruption complain, And go to the De'il with the bones of Tom Paine.

Of the other stories, my own favourites would he "The Resurrectionist" and "The Smile on the Portrait."

As to the Hunterian Museum, it is a mere resurrectionist's legacy.

RESURRECTIONIST, one who stealthily exhumed bodies from the grave and sold them for anatomical purposes.