"And here's his tail," said Elias, presenting the pathetic memento.
"The only trouble is in the line, 'Ye Pig his bodie lieth here,'" sobbed Romeo Augustus. "It doesn't lie here. He's been sold to a butcher."
"It's Elias who 'lieth here,'" remarked Isaac.
That was a heartless joke. No one was so low as to laugh at it.
"They often have monuments without the—the—the body," said Elias, with great delicacy.
Romeo Augustus was content.
He is a grown man now, but to this very day he keeps Mephibosheth's monument. It is nailed on the wall of his chamber. He sometimes smiles when he looks at it, but he does not take it down.
HAVING A LITTLE FUN.