called:
"Bear Up, for We Will Meet Again." The one that had went wrong was his
favourite look, named: "O Death, Where is Thy Victory?"

Looey's aunt says she will buy him a partnership if she is satisfied he
can fill the town's needs. They have a talk with the Wilcoxes, and he
rides on the hearse that day fur a try-out. His aunt peeks out behind
her bedroom curtains as the percession goes by her house, and when she
sees the style Looey is giving to that funeral, and how easy it comes
to him, that settles it with her on the spot. And it seems the hull dern
town liked it, too, including the departed's fambly.

Looey says they is a lot of chancet fur improvements in the undertaking
game by one whose heart is in his work, and he is going into that
business to make a success of it, and try and get all the funeral trade
fur miles around. He reads us an advertisement of the new firm he has
been figgering out fur that town's weekly paper. I cut a copy out when
it was printed, and it is about the genteelest thing like that I even
seen, as follers:

WILCOX AND SIMMS Invite Your Patronage

This earth is but a fleeting show, and the blank-winged angels wait for
all. It is always a satisfaction to remember that all possible has been
done for the deceased.

See Our New Line of Coffins
Lined Caskets a Specialty
Lodge Work Solicited

Time and tide wait for no man, and his days are few and full of
troubles. The paths of glory lead but to the grave, and none can tell
when mortal feet may stumble.

When in Town Drop in and Inspect Our New Embalming Outfit. It is a
Pleasure to Show Goods and Tools Even if Your Family Needs no Work Done
Just Yet

Outfits for mourners who have been bereaved on short notice a specialty.
We take orders for tombstones. Look at our line of shrouds, robes, and
black suits for either sex and any age. Give us just one call, and you
will entrust future embalmings and obsequies in your family to no other
firm.

WILCOX AND SIMMS Main Street, Near Depot

The doctor, he reads it over careful and says she orter drum up trade,
all right. Looey tells us that mebby, if he can get that town educated
up to it, he will put in a creamatory, where he will burn them, too, but
will go slow, fur that there sollum and beautiful way of returning ash
to ashes might make some prejudice in such a religious town.

The last we seen of Looey was a couple of days later when we told him
good-bye in his sho