---
title: 'A Model Undertaker'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, Sr.'
date: 1891-09-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Science'
- 'Children and Youth'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 104'
- 'Job 12'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/witherspoon-1891-a-model-undertaker
---

# A Model Undertaker

A natural-history vignette describing burying beetles (Necrophorus) collaborating to bury a fish, lay eggs, and complete their lifecycle—an engaging children's science story.

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