Thanks, Larry Marshburne! When we went to the cemetery in Elmira many years ago, we were surprised to see Olivia's epitaph in German. I had read a humorous "translation" of a German story into English that Mark Twain had written. As I remember, it kept the German word order and the he, she and it pronouns all the same way that they are used in German. Therefore, I assumed Mark Twain was more amused by German rather than thinking of it as a language to use for Olivia's epitaph. Nick Eichler