They had laid her in it bottomside up. Cash made it clock-shape, like this       with every joint
and seam bevelled and scrubbed with the plane, tight as a drum and neat as a sewing-basket, and they
had laid her head to the foot in it, because it would crush her dress. It was her wedding dress and it
had a flair-out bottom, and they laid her upside-down in it so the dress could spread out, and they had made
her a <[vel ou?]> veil out of mosquito-bar so the places where the auger had dug her face wouldn't show.

When we <was> are going out the preacher comes He <was> is muddy to the waist, coming in. "The Lord comfort this house,"
he says. "I was late because the bridge over the river is gone. I went down to the old ford and swum my
horse. Let the Lord pardon it and comfort this house."