The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-04
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The Wild Man Fror, Rorne

The Wild Man From Boeneo.
 @0HE next day we broke camp
 and was gone from that place,
 and I took away with me the
 half of a ring me and Martha had chopped in two. We kept on go ing, and by the time punkins and county fairs was getting ripe we was into the upper left hand corner of Ohio. And there Looey left us.
 One day Dr. Kirby and me was walking along the main street of little town, and we seen bang up funeral percession coming It must of been one of the Grand Army of the Repub-. ncans, fur they was some of the old soldiers in buggies riding along be hind and big string of people foller- ing in more buggies and some on foot. Every body was looking mighty sollun- But they was one man setting beside the undertaken on the seat of the hearse that was looking soIlumer than them all It was Looey, and I'll bet the corpse himself would of felt proud and happy and contented if be could of knowed the style Looey was giv- Ing that funeral. A couple Of hours lat CT zLooey comes into camp and says he is going to quit
 The doctor asts him if he has inner ited money.
 .sNo.'' says Looey, 'Tbut my aunt has given me a chancet to go into busf- ness.9
 Looey says he was born nigh there and was prowling around town the day before and run acrost an old aunt of his'n he had forgot all about She is awful respectable and religious and ashamed of him being into a travelling show. And she has offered to lend him enough to buy a half share in a business.
 What kind of business are you go ing fnto?'' asts the doctor.
 sT am going to be an undertaker,' says Looey. My aunt says this town needs the right kind of an undertaken bad.''
 MT. Wilcox. the undertaken that town has. is getting purity old and shaky, Looey says. and young Mir. Wilcox, his son. is too light minded and goes at things too brisk aud airy to give it the right kind of sendo6. People don't want him joking around their eorpses, and he is a fat yonng man and can't help making puns even in the pres ence of the departed. Old Mir. Will eox's eyesight is getting so poor he made a scandal In that town only the week before He was composing a de parked's face into last smile, but he vent too fur with it and give the de parted one of them awful mean. dey- ihsh kind of grins, like he had died with a bad temper on. By the time the departed's fambly had found it out things had went too fur, and the face had set hathaway, so iG wasn't safe to try to change 1t any.
 Old MT Wilcox had several brands of last looks. One was called Bear Up, For We win Meet Again" The one that had went wrong was his fla vorite look, named 70 Death, Where Is Thy vtctory2''
 Looey's aunt says she will buy him n partnership if she is satisfied he can i'll the towns needs They have a talk with the wiicoxes, and he rides on the hearee that day fur a tryout. His aunt peeks out behind her bedroom curtains as the percession goes by her house and when she sees the style Looey is giving to that funeral, and how easy 1t comes to him, that settles it with her on the spot And it seems the hull dern town liked it. too, including the departeds fambly.
 L4ooey says they is a lot of chancet fur Improvements in the undertaking game by one whose heart Is in his work. and he is going into that busi-