ring me and Martha had chopped in two. We kept on going, and by the time punkins and county f

old soldiers in buggies riding along behind, and a big string of people follering in more buggies and some on foot. Everybody was looking mighty sollum. But they was one man setting beside the undertaker on the

o well that you forgot the corpse was the chief party to that funeral. Looey took all the glory from him. He had jest natcherally stole that funeral away from its rightful owner w

him if he has

aunt has given me a chan

aunt of his'n he had forgot all about. She is awful respectable and religious and ashamed of him be

enjoy. But I've noticed that after a man gets the habit of roaming around this ter

world is but a fleeting show. But he has found a business which keeps you reminded all the time that dust is dust and ash to ashes shalt return. When he first went into the medicine business, he said, he w

ss are you going int

s Looey. "My aunt says this town need

and he is a fat young man and can't help making puns even in the presence of the departed. Old Mr. Wilcox's eyesight is getting so poor he made a scandal in that town only the week before. He was composing a departed's face into a last smile, but he went too fur wit

: "Bear Up, for We Will Meet Again." The one that had went wron

se that day fur a try-out. His aunt peeks out behind her bedroom curtains as the percession goes by her house, and when she sees the style Looey is giving to t

to make a success of it, and try and get all the funeral trade fur miles around. He reads us an advertisement of the new firm he has been figgeri

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can get that town educated up to it, he will put in a creamatory, where he will burn them, too, but will go slow, f

him the science of them last looks he was so famous at when he was a younger man. Young Mr. Wilcox was laying on a table fu

eitful world words is less than actions. But if you ever was to die within a hundred miles of me, I'd go," he says,

kindly fur the

hearn them called that, but I got better acquainted with them since. They are the fellers that stands out in front and gets you all excited about the Siamese twins or the bearded lady or the snake-charmer or t

four hundred. But being a fat lady's husband ain't no bed of rosy ease at that, Watty tells the doctor. It's like every other trade-it has its own pertic'ler responsibilities and troubles. She is a turrible expense to Watty on account of eating so much. The tales

ound of revolvers shot off and a woman screaming. Then I would come busting out all blacked up from head to heel with no more clothes on than the law pervided fur, yipping loud and shaking a big spear and rolling my eyes, and Watty would come rushing after me firing his revolver. I would make fur the doctor and draw my spear back to jab it clean through him, and Watty would grab my arm. And the doctor would whirl round and they woul

Watty weighed her on, the long-necked one would be changing to her snake clothes. Which she only had one snake, and he had been in the business so long, and was so kind of worn out and tired with being charmed so much, it always seemed like a pity to me the way she would take and twist him around. I guess they never was a snake was worked h

on with Watty. One night I hearn an argument from the fenced-off part of the tent Watt

rue," says Watty, ki

ou own up it is!" And

please, if she won't get off complete, to set somewheres else a minute, fur his chest he can feel giving way, and his ribs caving in. He called her his plump

"I bet I know something m

" the fat la

has got," Watty says, awful coaxing like, "or you wo

looks at another woman agin she will take anti-fat and fade away to nothing and ruin his show, and it is a

And he tells her they never was but once in all his life he has so much as turned his head to look at another woman, and that was by way of a plutonic admiration, and no flirting

ty's wife. He tells her a meas

s Watty, "and when I seen that I passed her up." A

ness goes out and falls down on the race track, pertending she has fainted, and they can't move her no ways, not even roll

als. She had been big from a little girl, and never got no sympathy when sick, nor nothing, and even whilst she played with dolls as a kid she knowed she looked ridiculous, and was laughed at. And by jings!-they was the funniest thing come to light before we left that crowd. That poor, derned, old, fat fool HAD a doll yet, all hid away, and whe

built so round everywhere he couldn't of got a grip on her. And as fur as wrapping himself around her and squashing her to death, Reginald never seen the day he could reach that fur. Reginald's feelings is plumb friendly toward Dolly when he is turned loose, but she don't know that, and she has