| Show SORROW ENOUGH FOR TWO world wor ld wise stonecutter proved he kne knew w his business that a man maii may be an artist in any profession no matter how lowly was brought to my attention in an an amusing manner last summer when I 1 was visiting a little country town in england said the tourist girl there was a stonecutter in the town whose reputation was great among the people as a designer of tomb tombstones stones and a writer of appropriate epitaphs to put upon the stones one day a disconsolate widow came to him with a request for a headstone for her departed husband which should bear this inscription my sorrow is greater than I 1 can bear being a wise man aware of the frailties of the human heart he be took care to leave space on the stone so that more could be added at any time A year later the widow made m ado him another visit she was about to re marryann mar wanted him to efface the inscription on the stone a and nd write a more fitting one no need for that maam was the reply 1 I allays looks to contingencies when theres widders left all wanted to that inscription Is just jurt one word put at the end ot the others in the space left there and the revised epitaph read ar ag follows my sorrow is greater than I 1 can bear alone |
