And you have the gravestones you have to deal with. THe soil can give and it can crush in on the box. "I don't use a machine," the gravedigger continued, "because it can sink the other graves. "In big cemeteries, where they do many graves, a lot of times they use a machine, that's right." He spoke like a Southerner, but very matter-of-factly, very precisely, more like a pedantic schoolteacher than a physical laborer. "I thought they did this with a machine," he said to the gravedigger. His frame, however, was still thick and strong. He wore dark coveralls and an old baseball cap, and from the gray in his mustache and the lines in his face he looked to be at least fifty. The man was standing about two feet down in the unfinished grave and stopped shoveling and hurling the dirt out to the side as the visitor approached him. “He was walking back through the cemetery to his car when he came upon a black man digging a grave with a shovel. Born place: in Waukegan, Illinois, The United States
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