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TEXT ON A HORSES TOMBSTONE. In the center of a field at Waverhill, Suffolk, England, is a large flat stone covering the grave of a mare which died in 11532, inscribed as follows: "Polka. She never made a false step. Ecclesiastes Hi., 19th verse." A reference to chapter and verse shows the following: "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts, even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other." This is probably the only instance of a text from the Scriptures appearing on a memorial stone to a racehorse.
