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Title: And All the Earth a Grave

Author: Carroll M. Capps (AKA C.C. MacApp)

Release Date: October 22, 2007 [EBook #23146]

Language: English

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AND ALL THE EARTH A GRAVE

BY C.C. MacAPP

ILLUSTRATED BY GAUGHAN

There's nothing wrong with
dying--it just hasn't ever
had the proper sales pitch!

It all began when the new bookkeeping machine of a large Midwestern
coffin manufacturer slipped a cog, or blew a transistor, or something.
It was fantastic that the error--one of two decimal places--should
enjoy a straight run of okays, human and mechanical, clear down the
line; but when the figures clacked out at the last clacking-out
station, there it was. The figures were now sacred; immutable; and it
is doubtful whether the President of the concern or the Chairman of
the Board would have dared question them--even if either of those two
gentlemen had been in town.

As for the Advertising Manager, the last thing he wante