[Magdalen] Nature goes tee hee

[ME Michaud]

A method of removing bodies, the predecessor of the body bag. I've
seen photos of them from the Civil War era.

If you and your family were too poor for a casket, or if you didn't have a
family member or friend with wood and simple hand tools, the whole
outfit was dumped into a grave.

One of my friends' brothers was a finish carpenter and he hand-made their
father's casket, Took him forty-eight hours and, I'm told, helped him
through the grieving process.
-M


On Friday, November 21, 2014, Don Boyd <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Our Listbrother James has opined "This thread is gone to hades in a
> handbasket, so...."  and I wonder about the origin of this saying.  Is
> "handbasket" somehow significant (I've never heard the word except in this
> 'gone to' context)?  Or has it survived because of the /h/-/h/
> alliteration? There are times, this morning being one, when I enjoy
> contemplating such trivialities as this.
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> Don in Austin
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