`` You were born to make your fortune , '' said Joe , `` and you 'll certainly do it . '' `` I certainly sha n't hold my hand , when I can get anything in it by reaching it out , for the sake of such a man as He was , I promise you , Joe , '' returned the woman coolly . `` Do n't drop that oil upon the blankets , now . '' `` His blankets ? '' asked Joe . `` Whose else 's do you think ? '' replied the woman . `` He is n't likely to take cold without 'em , I dare say . '' `` I hope he did n't die of anything catching ? Eh ? '' said old Joe , stopping in his work , and looking up . `` Do n't you be afraid of that , '' returned the woman . `` I a n't so fond of his company that I 'd loiter about him for such things , if he did . Ah ! You may look through that shirt till your eyes ache ; but you wo n't find a hole in it , nor a threadbare place . It 's the best he had , and a fine one too . They 'd have wasted it , if it had n't been for me . '' `` What do you call wasting of it ? '' asked old Joe . `` Putting it on him to be buried in , to be sure , '' replied the woman with a laugh .
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