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A New Way With Attorneys
Jests Home
ONE day a simple farmer, who had just buried a rich relation, an
attorney, was complaining of the great expense of a funeral cavalcade
in the country. Why, do you bury your attorneys here? asked Foote.
Yes, to be sure we do: how else?--O, we never do that in
London.--No? said the other, much surprised; how do you manage,
then?--Why, when the patient happens to die, we lay him out in a room
over night by himself, lock the door, throw open the window, and in the
morning he is gone.--Indeed! exclaimed the farmer, with amazement;
what becomes of him?--Why, that we cannot exactly tell; all we know
is, there's a strong smell of brimstone in the room the next morning.
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