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"No, I ain't, either; I ain't such a fool, I hope! Why, see me cry like a old numskull! Ain't it ridic'lous how you can talk 'bout deaths and buryin's all right, and can't tell of how somebody come back from the grave without where in th' nation is my handkerchief! Why, Abby, things ain't never looked the same to me from that minute on. I tell you I tell you I was real glad to see him!
Isabel began to laugh. "Now don't!" said her aunt, in great distress. "Don't ye! I s'pose 't was because we was such little girls an' all when 'Liza started it, but it makes me as nervous as a witch, an' al'ays did. You see, 'Liza was a great hand for deaths an' buryin's; an' 'as for funerals, she'd ruther go to 'em than eat.
Isabel began to laugh. "Now don't!" said her aunt, in great distress. "Don't ye! I s'pose 't was because we was such little girls an' all when 'Liza started it, but it makes me as nervous as a witch, an' al'ays did. You see, 'Liza was a great hand for deaths an' buryin's; an' as for funerals, she'd ruther go to 'em than eat.
You gotta take care of yourself, an' get your life insured, an' take out an accident policy, an' join a buildin' an' loan society, an' a buryin' association " "Now you shut up, Bert," Mary broke in. "You don't talk about buryin's at weddings. You oughta be ashamed of yourself." "Whoa, Mary! Back up! I said what I said because I meant it. I ain't thinkin' what Mary thinks.
'You can't buy 'em. But it's as festive as an ice-house. There's a friendly native coming down the aisle. He's your man, Hale, if you want the news. The verger was not in the best of tempers. 'It's at a quarter to four, said he, as Hale met him. 'No, no, at eleven. 'Quarter to four, I tell you. The vicar says so. 'Why, it's not possible. 'We have them at all hours. 'Have what? 'Buryin's.
There was too many buryin's thin to ask questions, an' the docthor he ran away wid Major Major Van Dyce's lady that year he saw to ut all. Fwhat the right an' the wrong av Love-o'-Women an' Di'monds-an'- Pearls was I niver knew, an' I will niver know; but I've tould ut as I came acrost ut here an' there in little pieces.
"Ellum be more " began Mary, then held her tongue upon that detail and approached another. "Shall us ask Mrs. Tregenza? Sorrer be gripping her heart just now, but a buryin's a soothin' circumstance to such as she. An' she could carry her son in the mind. Poor young Tom won't get no good words said above his dust; us can awnly think 'em for him."
I asked, after a pause, during which she had moved her stool from Eliza to roan Anne. "Nay, I can't reckon 'em all up," she replied. "Soomtimes it's weddin's an' soomtimes it's buryin's; then there's lile barns that's just bin weaned, and badly fowks i' bed." "And will you sometimes milk for a lady I know that lives in Leeds?"
There ain't goin' to be no weddin's nor buryin's yet in the Manor, please the A'mighty goodness, for one's as mis'able as t'other, an' both means change, which sometimes is good for the 'elth but most often contrariwise, though whatever 'appens either way we must bend our 'eads under the rod to both. But I mustn't stay chitterin' 'ere any longer good day t'ye!"
Another!" The undertaker grinned. "I'm about used up from gittin' robbed of my rest," complained the grave-digger. "This night-work ain't to my taste." "It's no use kickin'; you know what Lamb says that these daylight buryin's makes talk amongst the neighbors." "Should think it would," retorted the grave-digger, "with them typhoids dyin' like flies." "I thought of a joke, Lem."
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