Show COFFIN WAS A DApK NUMBER So Pennsylvania Man Sold It and Will Purchase Another Isaac Coffman of Hatton Pa tan told a coffin ho made many years ago Ho sold It not because ho felt he would havo no use for It but becauso his wlfo insisted that it was out of date Mr Coffrann Is nearing his eightieth birthday Ho explained to a friend that he constructed the coffin 20 years ago It was built of chestnut because as ho put it Manys tho time I have sat beside a cheery blaze of chestnut logs and heard them crackle and burn merrily It makes such a homellko blaze that I picked It In prefernco to other woods It was my desire to havo tho coffin as cozy as possible and I rejected the frivolities which so many persons affect In the matter of coffins In order to have It handy I kept It In the garret Hut my wlfo tolls mo that styles have changed and slnco I havo accumulated n little fortune for-tune she will not permit me to die unless un-less r consent to get an uptodate casket To avoid trouble I agreed to Bell the old one But at the same time I think that the coffin which was good enough for me in my poorer days should satisfy mo now and 1 shall always feel out of place in tho newfangled affair |