"Ah—well, I suppose you must have thought a great deal of him."
"Of course, sir,"—this with a vim.
The minister looked rather surprized, but continued:
"Blind staggers was the disease, I believe?"
"No, sir," snapped the widow, "apoplexy."
"Indeed; you must have fed him too much."
"He was always capable of feeding himself, sir."
"Very intelligent he must have been. Died hard, didn't he?"
"He did."
"You had to hit him on the head with an ax to put him out of misery, I was told."