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Then she told me about ` Leven . `` A shroud , to look rill nice , '' Calliope said , `` ought to be made as much as you can like a dress -- barrin ' t ' you ca n't fit it . Mis ' Toplady an ' Mis ' Holcomb an ' I made Jennie Crapwell 's shroud -- it was white mull and a little narrow lace edge on a rill life-like collar . We finished it the noon o ' the day after Jennie died , -- you know Jennie was Delia 's stepsister that they 'd run away from -- an ' I brought it over to my house an ' pressed it an ' laid it on the back bedroom bed -- the room I do n't use excep ' for company an ' hang my clean dresses in the closet of . `` In the afternoon I went up to the City on a few little funeral urrants , -- a crape veil for Jennie 's mother an ' like that , -- you know Jennie died first . We was n't goin ' to dress her till the next mornin ' -- her mother wanted we should leave her till then in her little pink sacque she 'd wore , an ' the soft lavender cloth they use now spread over her careless . An ' we wanted to , too , because sence Mis ' Jeweler Sprague died nobody could do up the Dead 's hair , an ' Jennie wa 'n' t the exception .