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Show To an "Amiable Child" There Is a monument neai Grant's tomb In New York, the Inscription on which reads: "Erected to the memory of an amiable child. St. Clair Pollock, died July 15, 1 71)7, in the tifth year of his age, Man that is horn of woman is of few years, and full of trouble. He Cometh forth like a (lower and Is cut down. He fleeth also ns a shadow and continue! h not." The child was the nephew of George Pollock, a New York merchant win nt one time owned t'laremonl. In this conveyance of the property In 1S(K) he slated: "There Is a small lnclosure near your boundary fence within which lies the remains of a favorite child, covered by a marble monument You will convey a peculiar pecu-liar and Interesting favor upon me by allowing me to convey . . keeping It, however, always enclosed and sacred. There Is a white marble funeral urn prepared to place on the nmmimeiif which will not lessen Its beauty." |