User:Life of Riley/Sandbox

The Mistress wanted the block inscribed: ‘The Dearest Dog!” I suggested: “The Dog God Made.” But we decided against both epitaphs. We did not care to risk making our dear old friend’s memory ridiculous by words at which saner folk might one day sneer. So on the granite is engraved:

LAD thoroughbred in body and soul. Some text in a div of block type Some people are wise enough to know that a dog has no soul. These will find ample theme for mirth in our foolish inscription. But no one, who knew Lad, will laugh at it. Introductory text. A B  R  A  C  A  D  A  B  R  A

B R  A  C  A  D  A  B  R

R A  C  A  D  A  B

A C  A  D  A

C A  D

A. Final text. The English astrologer Lilly, after the death of his wife, formerly a Mrs. Wright, found in a scarlet bag which she wore under her arm a pure gold “sigil” or round plate worth about ten dollars in gold, which the former husband of the defunct had used to exorcise a spirit that plagued him. In case any of my readers can afford bullion enough, and would like to drive away any such visitor, let them get such a plate and have en graved round the edge of one side, “Vicit Leo de tribus Judae tetragrammaton ╋.” Inside this engrave a “holy lamb.” Round the edge of the other side en grave “Annaphel” and three crosses, thus: ╋ ╋ ╋; and in the middle, “Sanctus Petrus Alpha et Omega.”