death-suit

Updated: May 20, 2025

Of death she has no fears, for in the long chest in the kitchen lie a web of coarse white linen, two pennies covered with the same to keep down tired eyelids, decent white stockings, and a white cotton sun-bonnet a decorous death-suit truly and enough money in the little bag for self-respecting burial.

Michael Fairless - The Roadmender