This reminds me of that amazing child-funeral scene in Barry Lyndon, with plumed sheep pulling the hearse.
From Smithsonian Libraries: Illustrated Catalogue of Undertakers’ Hardware and Trimmings with separate price list. James M. Shanahan, New York City, 1869.
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No. 6 plume please.
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