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Show Explains the Undertaker's Crouch. "Who is that fellow sitting flumped up and muttering to himself out there on the horse block?" "Aw, that's Ezra Toombs, the undertaker," under-taker," replied the landlord of the Skeedee tavern. "He's feeling sore over the way his business has been going of late. You see, the doctor gave Judge Feeble? two weeks to live; '.hat was six weeks ago, and the judge is up and around now and figgerin' on marryin' afain. Every time Ezra meets the doctor he asks him, 'How about it, hey?' and they have a row. And now he's sittin' out there watching watch-ing a tramp paintev gilding the weather weath-er vane of the church across the street. Ezra says, by Heck, he's about ready to move away, things is so dead I here." Kansas City Star. |