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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).
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