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In addition there were all sorts of patents for coffin ‘snorkels’, so the ‘misjudged as dead’ could have some fresh air (that is, why only a bell when the person would have asphyxiated by the time old sexton Lumpkin took notice?)
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Obligatory:
Bateson’s Belfry was the biggest seller.
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