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ID
b224
Title
"The Maker of Coffins."
Genre
Story
Page Count
11
Word Count
2900
Publisher
Argosy (UK)
Publication Year
1953
Topics
Death, Music, Mothers, Sons

And old lady receives her eldest son, a coffin-maker, on his weekly Sunday visit, and they chat, eat, and he plays the fiddle.

In Argosy (May 1953, with title "The Tune of Love"), The Daffodil Sky (1955), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974), A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (1987).