sexton-looking

Updated: May 23, 2025

"Perhaps some one has slipped a watch underneath, for it is somebody's watch; there is something real in it." "I took the stone up once myself," said Pusey, "and the ticking then seemed to come up from the ground. While I deliberated, an old man came out of yonder old sexton-looking house, and warned me not to disturb the dead.

George Alfred Townsend - Tales of the Chesapeake