The Larvals

When Arnie & Harvey Larval's mother died, it caused quite a stink. No foul play or anything like that - I mean it caused a stink, a funk, an eau-de-corpus, as it were. We caught wind of it a quarter mile away, while Arnie and Harvey, who had lived in Mrs. Larval's basement since they was teenagers, never noticed a thing other than meals were getting scarce. Once aroused by the sheriff, they had to come out of the house in order to get her buried. Harvey suggested digging a hole in the basement but the sheriff wasn't having any of it.

As funerals go, it weren't nothing much.

Later they was to find out the food their mother'd fix them had to be bought at a store and prepared. It was all more than they bargained for, especially Arnie who couldn't so much as pick his teeth without help. We hear tell Harvey found a stash of cash in a closet and learned himself how to use the telephone to call out for pizza. I hope they can hear the doorbell away down in that basement.