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• MORTICIAN: Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead!
  [clang] Bring out your dead! CUSTOMER...
• MORTICIAN: What? CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence.
  DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead!...
• An ounce of butter is worth a shilling of trombones.
• He spent his last shilling on a purse.
• He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence. -- Ben Frankli
• A Dublin lawyer died in poverty and many barristers of the city subscribed to a fund for his funeral.
  The Lord Chief Justice of Orbury was asked to donate a shilling....
• A lie in time saves nine.
• A stitch in time saves nine.