With a fine sense of irony, he persuaded the aforesaid deputy
sheriff to affix his signature to the will, and then remarked with
deep sarcasm that he had "put his house in order" so far as it was in
his power to do so. Inasmuch as the deputy sheriff was making way with
what looked to be his entire estate, saving the clothes upon his back
and the post-card (which he had taken the precaution to address to his
lawyers, thereby securing its protection by the United States
Government), Mr. Hooper's last will and testament as uttered on the
16th day of October, 1885, was necessarily brief and succinct. It
merely said:
"I hereby revoke any former will I may have made prior to this date,
and now bequeath to my beloved nephew, Thomas Singleton Bingle, my
entire fortune, which at this time appears to be not my face but my
figure. I therefore bequeath to him my physical person, and vest in
him the right to chuck it into the river, or to dispose of it for
medical purposes, as he may see fit, provided however that I shall
first have been declared sufficiently dead by competent judges.
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