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We knew that the procession was
approaching because suddenly
many of the inn's shopkeepers
began to prepare their tables
in front of their doors waving
offerings of food & incense.
Tom first came a squad
of cavalry with rifles reversed.
Then the Trumpet band playing
a funeral dirge. Then capability
+ a half dozen people dressed
in white & newlows. These
how there'd a car at the
cable of Grouper's as they parted.
As days came the coffins
arrived in a chair being
an arranged photographs
of the dead Trachums - then
another chair in which
was a white robe. The bus
supposed to carry the spirit
of the dead man to the place of
burial.
It was a solemn impres-
sion sight particularly when
regarded the way in which
the man had died.
The procession went on me
at the station when a body
car had been prepared to