Everything appears to be agin me, 'specially if there's money in it." "You do seem rather unfortunate." "Now, there's some countries where they frequently have earthquakes which rattle down the houses and mash people, and volcanoes which burst out and set hundreds of 'em afire, and hurricanes which blow 'em into Hereafter.

A coroner can have some comfort in such a place as that.

He can live honest and respectable.

Just think of settin' on four or five hundred bodies killed with an earthquake! It makes my mouth water.

But nothin' of that sort ever happens in this jackass kind of a land.