The real estate man had exhausted his resources, and as a last card he said, desperately:
"But you certainly must admit that the town is well laid out."
"Oh! we agree you've done the proper thing," I remarked. "When a town is dead it's only right to have it well laid out."
That real estate man was offended.
But then levity at a funeral is, I suppose, out of place.
There was a dentist in the town who seemed to have a little ambition, for he planted a sign in front of his office bearing the legend:
"Teeth inserted for five dollars."
"I call that dear," I remarked.
"How so?" asked Hollingsworth.