You take a family that's able to
embam, and you've got a soft thing.
You can mention sixteen different
ways to do it - though there AIN'T only one or two ways, when you come
down to the bottom facts of it - and they'll take the highest-priced way,
every time. It's human nature - human nature in grief. It don't reason,
you see. Time being, it don't care a dam. All it wants is physical
immortality for deceased, and they're willing to pay for it. All you've
got to do is to just be ca'm and stack it up - they'll stand the racket.
Why, man, you can take a defunct that you couldn't GIVE away; and get
your embamming traps around you and go to work; and in a couple of hours
he is worth a cool six hundred - that's what HE'S worth. There ain't
anything equal to it but trading rats for di'monds in time of famine.
Well, don't you see, when there's an epidemic, people don't wait to
embam. No, indeed they don't; and it hurts the business like hell-th, as
we say - hurts it like hell-th, HEALTH, see? - Our little joke in the
trade. Well, I must be going. Give me a call whenever you need any - I
mean, when you're going by, sometime.'
In his joyful high spirits, he did the exaggerating himself, if any has
been done. I have not enlarged on him.
With the above brief references to inhumation, let us leave the subject.
As for me, I hope to be cremated.
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