Comic Annual,  1 (1830), 147–54.

The Sorrows of an Undertaker

[Thomas Hood]

Genre:

Reminiscences, Spoof

Subjects:

Natural History


    The narrator refers to having, as an undertaker, 'obtained a contract for Parochial Conchology—or shells for the paupers' (149).



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