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Billy Blake's Best Coffin [from Once a Week]

Whitaker, John. "Billy Blake's Best Coffin [from Once a Week]." New York Saturday Press. 13 Feb. 1866: 67-69.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
short fiction
Abstract: 

In an attempt to scare the stoic coffin maker, some of Billy Blake's friends get him drunk and bury him alive. However, in going to the graveyard, they scare themselves and Billy gets the best of them despite their efforts.