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headstones from such a clearing (when not claimed in good time 

 by their owners) go to making the drainage of a drive, or some like 

 purpose. And yet these people, who cannot afford to pay for the 

 ground in perpetuity, go on erecting inscribed headstones, and 

 bringing often their little tokens of love, knowing well that a few 

 years will sweep away these, and that afterwards they cannot even tell 

 where is the dust of those that have been taken from them. What 

 an instance of human love and man's fugacity ! Let us hope that 

 whatever else maybe "taken from the French," we may never 

 imitate them in their cemetery management. 



