“Lastly, I hereby nominate Richard Roe, the wholesale butcher, Morris Moe, the beef-trust magnate, and Paul Poe, meat manipulator, to be executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
“In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the eighth day of May in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ten.
“F. P. Pitzer.”
[Seal]
Doing his Duty
The farmer marched into the little grocer’s shop with a firm step. “I want that tub of butter,” he said, “and that lot of sugar, and all that other stuff.”
“Good gracious!” said the widow who kept the shop. “Whatever do you want with all them goods?”
“I dunno,” said the farmer, scratching his head; “but, you see, I’m the executor of your husband’s will, and the lawyers told me I was to carry out the provisions.”
Major André’s Request of Washington
“Tappan, the 1st October, 1780.
“Sir.