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Detective tale on a coffin find in old hospital lore
A narrator recalls a trip to town to fetch a dead skeleton sold to Dr. McVicar. The box specimen, a skeleton used by a medical school, will hang in the doctor’s office to explain fractures. The tale blends a road trip with a grimly comic moment in rural Saskatchewan.
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Milly
Doc
Jim
Herb
Albert Snell
South McElroy’s
Narlan Smithson
Narlan
George Mathison
Fli
Town of
Rivers
2Nd Avenue
Manitoba
Board of Revision
Shirley Warkentin