Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEASLES must have done a rushing business down at Harvard, otherwise there would not have been much occasion for that enterprising undertaker to start a new coffin-warehouse right opposite the College. Yet the evil is over, but an epidemic worse than measles has broken out. We refer to the baseball and regatta business, which now monopolizes every available corner of the Crimson and Advocate. Why did the measles deal so kindly with Harvard's College editors...
...smoke stack. Leak handy. No bell or whistle; Bill probably "hollers" when he sees anything on the track. Whole made of pine-wood, newly shingled and lined in spots with tin. Name, "Sunny South." Rest of train, baggage and smoking (cards and whiskey) car, size of a royal octavo coffin; palace car, like an Irish jaunting...
...coffin...