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...sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely Puncheon's mound, the two enter the ancient graveyard and stay there reading the epitaphs till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Aug. 18, 1924 | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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