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THE STORY BY MACK McMACK
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And say now, when you're speaking of fine fellows, there's one of the finest.

Say, when Mack come into the undertaking business, they all just called themselves undertakers, but since he's been after them (because for all his fun and natural high spirits he's got a mighty serious and idealistic streak in him), since he's been after 'em, and he proved it to me by statistics, 51.7 per cent. of them now insist on being called morticians.

And Mack was the first mortician in Zenith to put in really fine funeral parlors—or no, mortuary apartments I believe they're now called by the leaders of the profession. I saw 'em—not, thank God, because of any unhappy and unfortunate catastrophe in my own little family, but because when he opened up, Mack gave a reception, and we all went to see how lovely and at the same time efficient a funeral parlor can be.

Say, that place was a treat! It must be a whale of a comfort to some poor family that has got to plant one of its loved ones. The main funeral