When you bury a Parson you always bury him re-incumbent - the opposite way to everybody else. Everybody lies with their feet to the east so that when they rise they face the Lord. But a Parson, you see, you bury him with his feet to the west, so that when he rises he faces his flock. And serve him right, I say.
William Russ, Akenfield, p324
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