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Show "Jokes" in Wills The gayety of the French often runs into practical jokes ; many of these have found their way into wills. A practical joker who died at Ream some three centuries ago expressed the wish that representatives of the four orders of the Mendicant monks should accompany his coffin, each currying four large candles which he had provided pro-vided in advance. It was done, but at the most solemn moment of the funeral service the big candles exploded, scattering scat-tering fire, smoke and consternation all around. They were all loaded like trick cigars. A rich Frenchman who died at Constantinople left li is fortune to a nephew and niece in France but to be given to them only after they had ridden all the way to Constantinople on n tandem bicycle to get It. They were young and strong, and they dfj It. |