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Owen was always talking about cornerstones and monuments-a PROPER monument, he used to say, explaining that what was required was a large, evenly cut, smooth, unflawed piece of granite. What sort of equipment? I asked her. SHE WAS LAUGHING AT ME, AT THE TIME-SHE MADE IT CLEAR THAT SHE THOUGHT / WAS A JOKE, he said, AND SO I SAID SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT WAS APPROPRIATE. BUT YOU HAVE TO BE SMARTER THAN YOU The boy closed his eyes and smiled again; his head nodded a little.

GEOLOGY, he said. ed me to have fun-but fun in the north country was not what I was used to in my life with the women at Front Street, Gravesend. Early tells Mr. According to Wall's History ofGravesend, N.