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Show 0ORROW ENOUGM FOR TWO. iVcfld Wlte Stonecutter Proved He Knew His Business. ' Thnt n man iray ho nn nrtlst In ui pro.osslon no matter how low-y low-y wns liionnlil to m attention in an imnslL'K manor last slimmer hon 1 ans vlsltliiK a littlo country town In Knpinml," said tho Tourist Girl. "Thuie wan a Blonccuttcr in tho 'own whose reputation was gicat imoni; the people ns a clealpner of .nmhfltoiu" and n writer of appropriate .'PitapliH to put upon tlio btonos. One Jay a disconsolate widow tamo to him with n lequvst for n headstone for lier departed hlishnnd which fclionld benr this Inset Iptlnn: "'.My sorrow Is Greater Tlinn 1 Cmi Hear.' "Heine n wlso man, nwnro of tlio frailties of tlio human heart, ho tooU eaio to leave space on tho stone so ihnt more amid bo added at any time "A j ear later the widow mndo him another lslt. Sho was about to ro-marry ro-marry anil wanted him to efface the Inscription on tlio stone and writo n moro flttinR one. "'No need for Hint, ma'am,' was the reply. '1 allays looks to contingencies when there's wldders left. All Hint's wanted to that inset Iptlon Is just ono word put at tho end of tho others, in tlio spaco left there." "And tho revised epitaph rend ns follows: "My Sorrow Is Greater Than I Can Bear Aiono." |