The woman came near, and, saying no words, fell on her knees to see it better.
“You did that, Joe?” and she looked up.
“I did!”
“There’s letters on it. I can’t spell them rightly.”
“Dory she made them on paper. She won’t know. I told her it was for a board I was thinkin’ to set up. There don’t no one come here.”
“It’s a stone! a real tombstone, Joe!”
“Yes, it’s that.”
“What’s on it?”
“I learned it,” he said. “It just says:
‘HERE LIE THE BODIES