A Queer Cupboard
A writer in the Anglican Church Magazine once found in a collier's cottage in Staffordshire a coffin used as a bread and cheese cupboard. Not ■withstandirghis wife's remonstrance he told the story of the coffin as follows: — * Eighteen years ago,' he said, 'I ordered that coffin. The wife and me used to have a good many words. One day she said 'I'll niyyer be content till I see tbee in thy coffin." • Well, lass,' I said, ' if that'll content thee, it'll soon be done.' Next day I pave directions to have the things made. la a few- days ifc came home, tb the wifes horror. I got into it and said ' Now, lass, art thee content?' She began to cry, and wanted the * horrid thing ' taken away. , But that I wouldn't allow. In the end she got accustomed to seem ' it, and as we wanted to turn it to some use, we had some shelves put in and made it into a bread and cheese cupboard. We have nivver quarrelled since it came.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 117, 31 March 1892, Page 4
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176A Queer Cupboard Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 117, 31 March 1892, Page 4
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