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This family don’t ever agree on nothin’ but just to differ.

As far as I see, the only time you ever get together is when one of you is dead.

Maybe that ’s the reason I got such a feelin’ against funerals.

[''The outside door opens and Jane enters, a druggist’s bottle in her hand; she is followed by John Bradford, a man of about thirty-five. He is better dressed than any of the others and is a man of a more cosmopolitan type,—a New Englander, but a university man, the local judge and the leading lawyer of the town''.

I met Judge Bradford on the way.

(John Bradford)

Court set late, I could n’t get here before. Jane tells me that she ’s very low.

Yes.

I can’t realize it; she has always been so strong, so dominant.

In the midst of life we are in death.

Say, Mum, that ’s in the Bible too!

Hush!