WANTED A CORPSE.
Here is a story of Mr Lawrence Jerome, tbu great .New York stockbroker, ain! uncle of Lady Kaodolph Churchill.■ He was passing the shop of a funeral furnisher during a 1 amble lit the East-end, when he saw displayed this sij;n: "Every requisito for a funeral," Solemnly entering,. Mr Jerome observed m a sepulchral tone, "I wish to procure a corpse!" " Whose corpse—what corpse?" stammered the the attendant, "Any corpse will answer," retorted "Larry," as he is called by his li-iends in Wall-street. " You see I wish to get up a funeral, and as your sign says 'Every requisite for a funeral furnished,' and as the first requisite is a corpse, I thought I would inquire."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1769, 23 August 1884, Page 4
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119WANTED A CORPSE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1769, 23 August 1884, Page 4
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