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LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

* " Then Pat shall go to heaven in the twin to it, if it takes the
last rap the O'Flaherties can raise; and mould you, stick on some
extras, too, and I'll give ye another dollar."

6 And as I lay-in with the livery stables, of course I don't forget
to mention that Mrs. O'Shaughnessy hired fifty-four dollars' worth of
hacks and flung as much style into Dennis's funeral as if he had been
a duke or an assassin. And of course she sails in and goes the

AMBITION.
O'Shaughnessy about four hacks and an omnibus better. That used
to be, but that's all played now; that is, in this particular town.
The Irish, got to piling up hacks so, on their funerals, that a funeral
left them ragged and hungry for two years afterward ; so the priest
pitched in and broke it all up. He don't allow them to have but two
hacks now, and sometimes only one.'
* Well/ said I,f if you are so light-hearted and jolly in ordinary
times, what must you be in an epidemic? *
He shook Ms head.
* No, you're off, there. We don't like to see an epidemic. An