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There
was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money and
was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just
about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now
listen. When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket
with me, because I wanna take my money to the afterlife with me."
And
so he got his wife to promise him with all of her heart that when he died, she
would put all of the money in the casket with him.
Well
one day he died. He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting
there in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the
ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife
said, "Wait just a minute!'
She
had a box with her, she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then
the undertakers locked the casket down, and they rolled it away.
So
her friend said, "Girl, I know you weren't fool enough to put all that
money in there with that man. " She
said, "girl, I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that
money in that casket with him, and I'm a woman of my word." "You
mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with that man?"
"
I sure did," said the wife. "'I wrote him a check."
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