W. Somerset Maugham
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Upon which were scrambled the following sentiments in pencil tracks.
The enclosed body is that of old Burker.
Step lightly, stranger, for your lies the mortal part of what ye must be summed up.
There's a rest for the weary.
If Berker hadn't a worked again me for corner, I wouldn't have bed to sit on him.
Of such is the kingdom of heaven.
You don't want to move this baldy, till him summons to hold a nine keist.
Or fresh or grass.
The ridiculous part of the story is that the lady did not wait to summon the coroner, but took charge of the remains herself.
And in dragging them toward the bed she exploded into her face a shotgun.
Which had been cunningly contrived to discharge by a string connected with the body.
Thus was she punished for an infraction of the law.
The next day the particulars were told me by the facetious coroner himself.
Whose jury had just rendered a verdict of accidental drowning in both cases?
I don't know when I have enjoyed a heartier laugh.
End of chapter twenty five
Section twenty six of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Lieberbox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
The optimist.
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