The Invalid's Story | Narrator

The narrator of the story, called Cap'n by the expressman, is one of two ill-fated victims of a case of mistaken identities, which involves a coffin containing his dead friend—John B. Hackett—and a box of guns with Limburger cheese on top. The narrator is only forty-one years old when he begins his tale, but he says that he has aged prematurely as the result of his misadventures two years ago. It is at this point that the narrator begins his tale.

Motivated by Hackett's last wishes, the narrator attempts to transport Hackett's body from Cleveland, Ohio to the fictional...

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