The following passage from "the invalid's story" is an example ofsec. 28: ...he, piled them on a breadth of sheet iron in the middle of the floor, and set fire to them.sec. 29: when they got well started, i couldn't see, myself, how even the corpse could stand it.

Ahumor -- a fire burning in a express car is funny.

Bsituational irony -- the "corpse" is a box of guns; guns (or corpses) don't care about smell.

Cverbal irony -- the narrator says they tried.