funeral-scarves

Updated: July 13, 2025

Three yards was the correct length of the black silk scarves which it was the custom in the neighbourhood to send to dead people's friends; but the old miser's funeral-scarves were a whole yard longer, and of such stiffly ribbed silk that Mr. Soot, the mourning draper, assured my mother that "it would stand of itself."

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - We and the World, Part I: A Book for Boys