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After a woman in rural Mississippi dies, her husband and five children begin an arduous journey to convey her coffin back to her hometown.

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didn’t put him in it too.⁠ ⁠… Does that hurt?”

“Not to speak of,” he said, and the sweat big as marbles running down his face and his face about the colour of blotting-paper.

“ ’Course not,” I said. “About next summer you can hobble around fine on this leg. Then it won’t bother you, not to speak of⁠ ⁠… If you had anything you could call luck, you might say it was lucky this is the same leg you broke before,” I said.

“Hit’s what paw says,” he said.

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