What did corpse say?
"Corpse said, whitewash his old canoe and dob his address and general destination onto it with a blacking-brush and a stencil-plate, 'long with a verse from some likely hymn or other, and p'int him for the tomb, and mark him C.O.

D., and just let him flicker.

He warn't distressed any more than you be--on the contrary, just as ca( ,)'m and collected as a hearse-horse; said he judged that wher' he was going to a body would find it considerable better to attract attention by a picturesque moral character than a natty burial-case with a swell door-plate on it.
"Splendid man, he was.

I'd druther do for a corpse like that 'n any I've tackled in seven year.

There's some satisfaction in buryin' a man like that.