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natural. In scrambling out of the grave, the man 

 very nearly knocked a woman out of the tier of 

 corpses at his back ; and as soon as he was up, the 

 two attendants with their spades threw earth down 

 upon the face and the white dress of the old man, 

 until both were covered with a very thin layer of 

 earth: the two men then jumped down with heavy 

 wooden rammers, and they really rammed the corpse 

 in that sort of way that, had the man been alive, he 

 would have been killed ; and we then all walked 

 away. 



