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Updated: May 14, 2025
Reeves," she said, "you've been lyin' to me two weeks, tryin' to buy that rooster that I wouldn't sell no more'n I'd sell my first husband's gravestun'. And when you couldn't git it by lyin', you stole it off'm the roost to-night. And to make sure there won't be any more lies, I've followed you right here to find out the truth. Now what does this mean?" There was a soulful pause.
"And I promised," said he, "that if she was spar’d, I’d buy as nice a gravestun as I would if ’twas Sunshine." Three weeks from that time there stood by the mound in the little graveyard a plain, handsome monument, on which was simply inscribed, "Julia, aged twenty." One after another those who had been with Fanny during her illness departed to their homes.
Miller, knew him, but you don’t know—no, nor begin to know, how old Josh loved him, and what a tremendous wrench it gin my old heart when I come home and found he was dead. But, Lord, hain’t he got a fine gravestun, though!
Carrington contented herself with having a few hysterical fits, shedding a few tears, dressing herself in an expensive suit of mourning, and erecting to the memory of her husband a magnificent monument. When Mr. Middleton saw the latter, he said, "Why the plague can’t Dick have as good a gravestun as that young lieutenant? He desarves it jest as much"; so out came his purse, and when Mrs.
"Why, yes, I have," said the man, "but no gravestun ain't necessary: you see the cussed critter ain't dead. The agent retired. The seats are cushionless, and have perpendicular backs. The pulpit is plain white trimmed with red, it is true, but still a very unostentatious affair for colored people, who are supposed to have a decided weakness for gay hues.
On a plain slab stun, lookin' a good deal like a permanent grave-stun, sot up high there, for Americans to weep over forever, bitter tears of shames, is the name, "Arnold." He wuz a brave soldier; his name ort to be there; it is all right to have it there and jest where it is, on a gravestun.
"Lord A'mighty!" he ejaculated under his breath, "Lord A'mighty! to hector and abuse a child like that one! 'T ain't ABUSE exactly, I know, or 't wouldn't be to some o' your elephant-hided young ones; but to that little tender will-o'-the-wisp a hard word 's like a lash. Mirandy Sawyer would be a heap better woman if she had a little gravestun to remember, same's mother 'n' I have."
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