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Show Death Bed Jest. Among what may be called deathbed death-bed Jests, that of the Her. James Guthries of Stirling, one of tho Covenanter Cove-nanter martyrs, deserves a high pluce. Lord Gutbrles recalls the story In "From a Northern Window." Mr. Guthries was executed at the Ctobs In the High street, Kdinburgh. The night before lie asked for cheese for supper. His friends wondered, for the physicians had forbidden him to eat cheese. Hut he said, with a smile, "I am now beyond the hazard of all earthly diseases." Undo Remus' Magazine. |