“How’s your wife, Mr. Thompson?”
“She’s dead,” he replied sadly.
“What? Dead again?” the woman cried.
Ingersoll was full of stories hinging on the place he believed did not exist. Here is one of them:
“His Wives had a Way of Dying.”
A man who wanted to visit hell was advised to buy an excursion ticket. He did so, and when the train stopped at a place full of beautiful trees, warbling birds and bright sunshine he did not get off. The conductor said:
“I thought you wanted hell?”
“Is this hell?” the passenger asked; “I didn’t think it looked like this.” Then he walked about and met a man to whom he said: