A New York stone-cutter received the following epitaph from a German, to be cut upon the tombstone of his wife : " Mine wife Susan is dead ; if she had hved till nex' Friday she'd been dead : shust two weeks. As a tree falls so must I it stan'." '
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 57, 18 March 1881, Page 2
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47Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 57, 18 March 1881, Page 2
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