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The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.

The Greek Anthology

Convenient Partnership (Anonymous)

DAMON, who plied the undertaker’s trade,

With Doctor Crateas an agreement made.

What linens Damon from the dead could seize,

He to the doctor sent for bandages;

While the good doctor, here no promise-breaker,

Sent all his patients to the undertaker.