Charles Carmichael's grandson knows all the gravestones off by heart. There was John Spottiswood Robertson, killed by an elephant, and William Watson Mackwood, who fell off his horse on to a stake. Not forgetting Captain James McGlashan, veteran of the battle of Waterloo, who died after a long walk in the rain, accepting his end "with manly fortitude". Never mind that the lettering on the stones is almost indecipherably faded, he can recite them all, along with cause of death.
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