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Show Making Hades Easy. Strange wishes are sometimes ex-F:c-ssed by those at the point of d'-ath to ease their last moments, but probably have been more strange than that of the son of Erin to whom Rtv. Dr. Floyd W. Tompkins told a s!inrt time ago in an afternoon speech : Pat O'Shaunessy had been told by doctor that he could live but a k'" hours," said Dr. Tomkins, "and 1113 wife and assembled relatives and f'l!nds asked him whether there was '" last wish he would like to have ratified before he died?" '"There is.' said Pat. 'I'd like to ar the village band play once a?ain.' "Accordingly the village band gath-e'ed gath-e'ed before Pat's house and dis-' dis-' "Jrsed airs for several hours. When ' 'ast it had played, "Say Au Revoir E'it Not Good-by," and had taken its n departure, Mrs. O'Shaunessy, Kneei ng at her husband's bedside, a Kd, 'Can ye die aisy now, Pat?' 's.' replied Pat. 'I can die aisy I ,v- Hades has nothing worse than t.iat.' " |