I went an' convinced myself of that.
[_He sits down on the low platform and fills his nose anew with
snuff._
_MRS. FIELITZ holds the lighted lamp and puzzles out the
inscription._
MRS. FIELITZ
Here rests in ...
LEONTINE
[_Reading on._] In God.
RAUCHHAUPT
That's what I said: in God. I was goin' to write first: in the Lord. But
that's gettin' to be so common.
MRS. FIELITZ
[_Reads on with trembling voice._] Here rests in God the unforgotten
carpenter ... [_Weeping aloud._] Oh, no, I tell you, it's too awful! That
man--he was the best man in the world, he was. A man like that, you c'n
take my word for it, you ain't likely to find no more these days.
LEONTINE
[_Reading on._] ... the unforgotten carpenter Mr. Julian Wolff ...
[_She snivels._
FIELITZ
--Don't you be takin' on now, y'understand? No corpse ain't goin' to come
to life for all your howlin'. [_He hands the whiskey bottle to
RAUCHHAUPT._] Here, Edward, that'll do you good. Them goin's on don't.
[_He gets up and brushes off his blue apron with the air of a man who
has completed his day's work._
RAUCHHAUPT
[_Pointing with the bottle._] Them lines there I made up myself.
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