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Updated: June 16, 2025

But although a Presbyterian in practice, Sir Walter in several parts of his works expressed his dissent from several of the rigid canons of that Church, and an example occurs in that graphic scene in the Antiquary, the funeral group of Steenie Mucklebacket, where "the creak of the screw nails announced that the lid of the last mansion of mortality was in the act of being secured above its tenant.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 20, No. 571 (Supplementary Number)