| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 914 |
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During this time Rushton & Co. had had several `boxing-up' jobs to do, and Crass always did the polishing of the coffins on these occasions, besides assisting to take the `box' home when finished and to `lift in' the corpse, and afterwards he always acted as one of the bearers at the funerals. For an ordinary class funeral he usually put in about three hours for the polishing; that came to one and nine. Taking home the coffin and lifting in the corpse, one shilling - usually there were two men to do this besides Hunter, who always accompanied them to superintend the work - attending the funeral and acting as bearer, four shillings: so that altogether Crass made six shillings and ninepence out of each funeral, and sometimes a little more. For instance, when there was an unusually good-class corpse they had a double coffin and then of course there were two `lifts in', for the shell was taken home first and the outer coffin |
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