Nothing doing. A corpse that didn't have any better
judgment than that could stay in bed until doomsday for all of him. So
they had to get another undertaker. But Bennett told her to get the
basket and he would send the assistant after it. But I held it for
ransom, and Bennett had to pay me two dollars for it."
His auditors wiped their eyes, half ashamed of their laughter.
"It is funny," said Nancy Tucker, "but it seems awful to laugh at such
things."
"Awful! Not a bit of it," declared Barrows. "It's religious. Doesn't
it say in the Bible, 'Laugh and the world laughs with you, Die and the
world laughs on'?"
"I laugh,--but I am ashamed of myself," confessed Carol.
"What do women want to spoil a good story for?" protested Nevius.
"That's a funny story, and it is true. It is supposed to be laughed
at. And Reddy is better off. He had so many bugs you couldn't tell
which was bugs and which was Reddy. He was an ugly guy, too, and he
was stuck on a girl and she turned him down. She said Reddy was all
right, but no one could raise a eugenical family with a father as ugly
as Reddy. He didn't care if he died. Every night he used to flip up a
coin to see if he would live till morning. He said if he got off ahead
of us he was coming back to haunt us.
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