SKETCHES NEW AND OLD

by Mark Twain

Part 6.

CONTENTS:

[THE UNDERTAKER'S CHAT]
[CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS]
[AURELIA'S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN]
["AFTER" JENKINS]
[ABOUT BARBERS]
["PARTY CRIES" IN IRELAND]
[THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION]
[HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF]
[HONORED AS A CURIOSITY]

THE UNDERTAKER'S CHAT

"Now that corpse," said the undertaker, patting the folded hands of deceased approvingly, was a brick-every way you took him he was a brick. He was so real accommodating, and so modest-like and simple in his last moments. Friends wanted metallic burial-case—nothing else would do. I couldn't get it. There warn't going to be time—anybody could see that.