And so, you see, it is not always so easy to get these bones out of sight in time for one of these pauper funerals.

No, no! it is quite true what I say.

The poor are just as much trouble in death as they are in life!" There was once a new manager of the cemetery who wished to get rid of Abraham, who caused general indignation when he went tumbling about tipsy among the graves.

But the dean said, "What is to become of the poor man?
He will remain as a burden either to you or to me; and besides, he has been with us as long as I have been here, and I have always been able to bear with his sad infirmity.

It would really go to my heart to drive him away." And so the public were content to keep Abraham as an evidence of Dean Sparre's kindness of heart.
As Woodlouse stood looking at the bones, he was absorbed in philosophical meditation, and he could not help thinking that there was a sort of air of defiance in the grin, with which one of the skulls returned his gaze.