Browse:MEASURING THE DEAD (Volume 4, entries 7942)
MEASURING THE DEAD
Volume 4, entries 7942. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN REAL OR MOCK. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7942
Says if yo' measure a person wit a square or eithah a rule - dat chew measure a dead person to git 'im in 'is coffin-lak dere, an' den measure a person live, height by dat rule or square, he'll soon die. (That was especially in the old days when they had to make their coffins, the old-fashioned coffins. You must measure him with the same rule as you used in measuring out the dead man's coffin.) Dat's right.