The ,000 Bequest - Chapter III

The ,000 Bequest - Chapter III

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"The ,000 Bequest - Chapter III" by Mark Twain. Read aloud by a LibriVox volunteer. Public domain.

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Transcript

0:00 Tilbury had kept faith, kept it to the letter.

0:03 He was dead.

0:04 He had died to schedule.

0:06 He was dead more than four days now, and used to it.

0:09 Entirely dead, perfectly dead, as dead as any other new person in the cemetery.

0:15 Dead in abundant time to get into that week's Sagamore, too, and only shut out by an accident.

0:20 An accident which could not happen to a metropolitan journal, but which happens easily to a poor little village rag like the Sagamore.

0:28 On this occasion, just as the editorial page was being locked up, a gratis quart of strawberry water-ice arrived from Hostetter's ladies and gents' ice-cream parlors,

0:39 and the stickful of rather chilly regret over Tilbury's translation got crowded out to make room for the editor's frantic gratitude.

0:48 On its way to the standing galley, Tilbury's notice got pied.

0:53 Otherwise, it would have gone into some future edition, for weekly Sagamores do not waste live matter,

1:00 and in their galleys live matter is immortal, unless a pie accident intervenes.

1:06 But a thing that gets pied is dead.

1:08 ausge the down, shall we

1:13 the dirt?

1:14 So I will gonna leave my back soon.

1:16 Now I'll go to the video,

1:17 so I'll go to the door and I'll be out of the door.

1:19 I'll be right back soon.

1:21 So I'll see you later,

1:26 I will see you later this week.

1:27 So I'll see you later,

1:28 I'll see you later.

1:29 So if you have any questions,

1:31 please read it on me.

1:33 So I'll see you later this week.

1:34 So I'll see you later.