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A rum cough carried him off.
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Grim death took little Jerry,
The son of Joseph and Sereno Howells,
Seven days he wrestled with the dysentery
And then he perished in his little bowels
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On a tombstone in Grafton, Vt.:
Gone home below.
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Here lies Bernard Lightfoot who was accidentally killed in his forty fifth year.
Erected by his grateful family.