Not that I'd mind that much for myself, but it cuts me up to think that as soon as I stepped out the next coroner'd begin right off to earn a livin' out of me." Then I said "Good-morning" and left, while Mr.Maginn selected a fresh stick to whittle.

Mr.Maginn, however, had one good chance recently to collect fees.
The country around the town of Millburg is of limestone formation.

The town stands, as has already been mentioned, on a high hill, at the foot of which there is a wonderful spring, and the belief has always been that the hill is full of great caves and fissures, through which the water makes its way to feed the spring.

A year or two ago they organized a cemetery company at Millburg, and they located the graveyard upon the hill a short distance back of the town.

After they had deposited several bodies in the ground, one day somebody discovered a coffin floating in the river.