Show ordering ills iia own tombstone A countryman called on a sculptor sculptor in tilsit and ordered a tombstone in the shape of a cross and gave full instructions as to the lettering and the date of the decease and promised to fetch it away himself he failed however to turn up at the day appointed and the sculptor wrote to remind him blut of his promise tho the other day the man turned up at last but said that he wanted the date erased on being asked his reason for the strange request tho the countryman answered tha that thata a gypsy woman had told him that he would die on the day which he had bad ordered to be inscribed on oil the cross the prophecy had not however come true and he now wanted to take away the monni monument neut but without the date deutsche warte barte |