[Elbow-Room by Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)]@TWC D-Link book
Elbow-Room

CHAPTER XI
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I think I'd straighten it up and put a gas-pipe railing around Mr.Smyth.And while you're about it, Mrs.Banger, hadn't you better buy about ten feet beyond Mr.Smith, so's there won't be any scrouging when you bury the next one?
I like elbow-room in a cemetery lot, and I pledge you my word it'll be a tight squeeze to get another one in there and leave room for you besides.

It can't be done so's to look anyways right, and I know you don't want to take all four of 'em out and make 'em move up, so's to let the rest of you in.

Of course it'd cut you up, and it'd cost like everything, too.
"When a person's dead and buried, it's the fair thing to let him alone, and not to go hustling him around.

That's my view, any way; and I say that if I was you, sooner than put Mr.Smith on top of McFadden and Smyth on top of Smith, I'd buy in the whole reservation and lay 'em forty feet apart.
"And how _is_ Mr.Banger?
Seem in pretty good health?
Do you think we are to have him with us long?
I hope so; but there's consumption in his family, I believe.

Life is mighty uncertain.


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