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These, the people tore to pieces and scattered far and wide with

great enjoyment, while the tradesmen hurriedly shut up their

shops; for a crowd in those times stopped at nothing, and was a

monster much dreaded. They had already got the length of opening

the hearse to take the coffin out, when some brighter genius

proposed instead, its being escorted to its destination amidst

general rejoicing. Practical suggestions being much needed, this

suggestion, too, was received with acclamation, and the coach was

immediately filled with eight inside and a dozen out, while as

many people got on the roof of the hearse as could by any

exercise of ingenuity stick upon it. Among the first of these

volunteers was Jerry Cruncher himself, who modestly concealed his

spiky head from the observation of Tellson's, in the further

corner of the mourning coach.