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Cemetery, n.
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An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympian games:
His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them.
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[In the earth we here prepare a]
In the earth we here prepare aPlace to lay our little Clara.
—Thomas M. and Mary Frazer.
P. S.—Gabriel will raise her.
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