weddin'-silk

Updated: May 29, 2025

Thinks I, 'How was there enough of that silk, when we had hard work to get Elmira's dress out? "Then I saw, in the middle of the room, a great long thing, all covered over with silk, an' I thought it was a coffin. I went up to it, an' there was Abel's hat on it, the one he wore when he went away. I took the hat off, an' the weddin'-silk, an' there was a coffin. "I thought it was Abel's.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Jerome, A Poor Man: A Novel