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Obliquity and Obliviousness single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 1879... 1879 Obliquity and Obliviousness
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An American stone-carver sells a backwoodsman an unbought but already lettered gravestone for his parents' grave to fulfil a stipulation in a will. The wrong inscription was irrelevant because they couldn't read. Folk humour. (PB)

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