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Show GOT THE JOBS MIXED UP But at That, Old Gentleman Had Equipped Coffin for the Crossing of the River. Joseph C. Lincoln told this story at the luncheon of the Brooklyn colony col-ony of the Society of New Kngland Women recently to illustrate the efli-cacy efli-cacy in the old days of New England ruin : "An old Cape Cod settler made both boats and collies. One -day lie was called upon to make a coflin to be finished in two days. The old fellow demurred because he was busy milking milk-ing a boat. But the need for the coflin was imperative, so it occurred to the insistent customers: that New England Eng-land rum iniislit help. So a bottle was forthcoming. Tie; old fellow took a swig and agreed that he reckoned he would have' to accommodate the g i.tleman. In two days they turned lo find the old man asleep in the corner, cor-ner, the bottle einpl,an(l the coflin ready, resting on two clmirs. But the old captain had put a cenlerhoaril in 1 he coflin." |