Mrs. Monaghan came into the newsroom to pay for her husband’s obituary. She was told by the kindly newsman that it was a dollar per word, and that he remembered Pete, and it was certainly too bad he had passed away.

She thanked him for his kind words and bemoaned the fact that she only had two dollars, but she wrote out the obituary, “Pete died.”

The newsman said he thought old Pete deserved more and said he would give her three more words at no charge.

Mrs. Monaghan sincerely thanked him and rewrote the obituary:

“Pete died. Boat for sale”.