Next time you pass one, look at it.

I have not the slightest doubt that this was the way the mistake was made.

We have an occasional wag at the South, and some one has practised upon a soft-hearted New Englander in search of horrors; this is the result.

She mentions that the ashes were black.

Do not infer from this that it must have been a black man or negro.
But I will no longer arraign your good sense.