Mark Twain wrote "Life on the Mississippi" in 1883.
In Chapter 43 of that great book we find:
"And there 's one thing in this world which you don't have to
worry around after a person to get him to pay for. And that
's a coffin. Undertaking?--why it 's the dead-surest business
in Christendom, and the nobbiest."
A few lines later, Twain has a character saying:
" 'D'ye mane to soy that Bridget O'Shaughnessy bought the
mate to that joo-ul box to ship that drunken divil to
Purgatory in?'
Does anyone know Hammett's relationship with this
curiosity?
In advance, I thank you so very much.
Frederick Zackel
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