epitaph
| Inscription on a tomb, or a short tribute to a dead person. |
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The Story Girl had brought flowers for her mother's grave as usual, and while she arranged them on it the rest of us read for the hundredth time the epitaph on Great-Grandfather King's tombstone, which had been composed by Great-Grandmother King. Trefusis objected that the epitaph was untrue, and said that he did not see why tombstones should be privileged to publish false statements. And this was the epitaph of a dead dog on the Northland trail--less scant than the epitaph of many another dog, of many a man. |
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