Sketches New and Old, Part 6.

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, Part 6
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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
by Mark Twain
Part 6.
CONTENTS:
THE UNDERTAKER'S CHAT
CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS AURELIA'S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN "AFTER" JENKINS ABOUT BARBERS "PARTY CRIES" IN IRELAND THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF HONORED AS A CURIOSITY
THE UNDERTAKER'S CHAT
"Now that corpse," said the undertaker, patting the folded hands of deceased approvingly, was a brick-every way you took him he was a brick. He was so real accommodating, and so modest-like and simple in his last moments. Friends wanted metallic burial-case—nothing else would do. I couldn't get it. There warn't going to be time—anybody could see that. "Corpse said never mind, shake him up some kind of a box he could stretch out in comfortable, he warn't particular 'bout the general style of it. Said he went more on room than style, anyway in ...