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have given instructions to the undertaker to see this 

 carried out. I think the expense will be about £30 ; 

 but if you send me your cheque for £25, I will get 

 the accounts and send them to you as soon as the 

 funeral is over. I hope you will not think I am 

 officious in this matter ; and, if there is anything else 

 you wish to have done, please let me know, and I will 

 attend to it. 



' Yours faithfully, 



' William Smallbody. 

 ' To Montgomery Dilly, Esq., Littleton.' 



A cheque was duly forwarded, with a letter thank- 

 ing the mutual friend for his kind interference. It 

 was duly received and as duly acknowledged by 

 'Mr. Smallbody.' Mr. Montgomery Dilly, Mr. W. 

 Dilly, and their two sisters, all went into deep 

 mourning for their dear departed brother. To the 

 great surprise of the first-named gentleman, on his 

 visiting Newmarket a few weeks after, who should he 

 come upon but his brother John, still in the flesh, 

 alive and hearty I Naturally, the one brother up- 

 braided the other for his heartless deceit. To this 

 poor John replied : 



' Ah, 'Gomery, I knew you would not send me 

 anything to keep me alive ; but I thought you might 

 to see me safely underground.' 



Curious as this story may seem, there is not the 



