Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — The Undertaker in the Antipodes. [ARTICLE]

The Undertaker in the Antipodes.

We see in a daily paper that an undertaker in a country town not a hundred miles from Launceston announces that he lias supplied a long-felt want in the district by securing a hearse of she latest design, and is now prepared to carry out his work on terms to w suit these depressed times. That, as our contemporary remarks, is not at ail bad in the way of grim humor, but it is hardly equal to that of the gentleman who advertised, “Why live and be miserable, when you can be comfortably buried for three guineas?” Medieval knights often took a volun-! tary oath that they would never spar* the life of »» eorroy. i