The Irish got to piling up hacks so, on their funerals, that a funeral left them ragged and hungry for two years afterward; so the priest pitched in and broke it all up.

He don't allow them to have but two hacks now, and sometimes only one.' 'Well,' said I, 'if you are so light-hearted and jolly in ordinary times, what must you be in an epidemic ?' He shook his head.
'No, you're off, there.

We don't like to see an epidemic.

An epidemic don't pay.

Well, of course I don't mean that, exactly; but it don't pay in proportion to the regular thing.