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Life On The Mississippi
Part 9.

CHAPTER 43 The Art of Inhumation
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And there's one thing in this world which you don't have to worry around after a person to get him to pay for.

And that's a coffin.

Undertaking ?--why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.
'Why, just look at it.

A rich man won't have anything but your very best; and you can just pile it on, too--pile it on and sock it to him-- he won't ever holler.

And you take in a poor man, and if you work him right he'll bust himself on a single lay-out.


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