Bess would send her stable boy to Cutter's for the coffin.

Skilled diggers then went to the burial site to prepare for the coffin.

This could be for things such as the funeral director's fees, the coffin or flowers.

It accounts for the empty coffin, that was later to be filled and over-filled.

Yet somehow he made it, then went back for the coffin.

I left the ministrations to other hands and headed for the next coffin.

The animals saved, Jewel heads back into the barn for the coffin.

Some places "were refusing to embalm and saying you had to buy an expensive glass cover for the coffin," he reports.

The undertaker was coming soon to measure for the coffin.

"Just in case you need some final stickum for the coffin."