This is only an enterin' wedge. If this 'ere bill passes and we
git a new hearse, then it'll be said thet ther horses don't look as well
as the hearse, and then if ther hearse gits out in ther storm, we shell
hev ter pay money to git it polished up agin, and we who are livin' will
hev to work harder and harder for the benefit of those who are jest as
well satisfied with the old hearse as they would be with a new one. I
move, Mister Moderator, that instid of buyin' a new hearse, thet ther
old one be lengthened six inches, which ken be done at a slight
expense."
Mr. Tobias Smith now took the floor.
"I am glad that my friend has not opposed this measure entirely, but has
provided for my proper exit from this world when my time comes. I must
confess that it has troubled me a great deal when I have thought about
that hearse. I was born down in the State of Maine, where the boys and
the trees grow up together. I stand six feet two in my stockings and six
feet three with my boots on, and I haven't looked forward with any
pleasure to being carried to my last resting place in a hearse that was
only six feet long.
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