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Show MADE TOMBSTONE OF ROCK j Probably New Yorker Will Investigate i Before He Carves His Name on 1 Another Bouider. f It was quite n while before n proud- J pent lawyer In New York related to j his friends a personal etcperlenee j which ho had one summer when, being I somewhnt run down in health, he went i Into tho Adiromlaeks to rest. j One day, as he was wanderlnp; nltn- j lessly through the woods, lie etune lip- j on n huge hull I dor not far from the railroad that runs along the shore of a lake. Listlessly he began to carve his name on the rock, hut gradually wanned tn the task and chiseled zealously zeal-ously away until he had wrought both name and date with various embellishing embellish-ing nourishes. As be w-ns proudly surveying the result of his labor, an elderly backwoodsman back-woodsman appeared on the scene. After Aft-er the customary greeting, he dexterously dex-terously shifted his pad; to Iho ground, then with a somewhat cpti.'.ical air surveyed the lawyer's work. "Quite n bit of art you've got there." he observed gravely. The lawyer accepted this tribute complacently. ' "Kind of curious how things conie about," lie went on. "Now. the lirst time a train wtis ran into these hero woods It come in contact with a trauiti. long about hero; uttd that there bidder bid-der marks iho 'cot where we b'irled him. Now, here lie is provided with a h'rst-elnss totitb-tone and tin inscription inscrip-tion that anybody might be proud of. Kinder curious, ain't it?" |