URIA BYLER'S ELEGY FOR PALMER LEHMAN Palmer Lehman has been gone for quite a few years. Worked till his 70th birthday, big husky man, never shirked from any job, but the company's policy forbade anyone working after being 70. Working as a security guard at a factory in Middlefield his heart started to fail, and one cold winter day he walked out to get his mail. About ten feet from the house he fell over dead from a heart attack. His retarded daughter in the house assumed her father spent the night with friends. Next day the bread man found him partly snowed under his mail still clutched in his hand. --from The Budget
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