| Show i 7 s Comical Epitaphs t Specimens in Book of 4 of which es Northend is the It is not much of a book in a ary but it is quite amus- and we propose to quote liberally from its We shall begin with what may be Ji called comic ln In a town in Connecticut ri there lies buried a man who in life had a large wen on the top i of his He is thus e father lies beneath the n tJ His spirit's gone unto his j We never more shall hear his Nor see the wen upon his The following is said to be on a gravestone near Martha Shiell has gone y 1 J Ker would if she but her j couldn't Her had 2 had legs and a bad-dish 5 It was her two bad legs that carried her On a tombstone in over the body of a child is this couplet hero lies here j The little that j Was conquered by the d On a tombstone in Worcester is this singular in- and I together lived I Just two years and a J She went first I followed A The cow before the calf 1 This comes from I this sod And under these trees Lieth the bod-y of Solomon He's not in this It But only his pod He shelled out his soul And went up to his These on a tombstone at Child are well lies me and my three Brought here by using If we had stuck to Epsom salts We wouldn't have been in these here Here is how they do this sort of thing in the thrust of ox's horn Came I into heaven's All so quickly did 1 Wife and children leave must But in eternity rest I All through thou wild A good many men discover that they have been henpecked after their wives are and boldly state the fact or their epitaphs makers do for lies the man And Mary his wife Their surname was They lived without strife And the reason was plain They abounded in They no care nor And the wore the lies wife second of old Wing She's safe from care and I from brothers If death had known thee as well as He ne'er had stopped but passed thee I wish him but much I fear He'll rue the day he came thee A relieved and joyful husband caused this inscription to be placed on the headstone of his wife in stone was raised by Sarah's Not Sarah's virtues to For they're well known to all the But it was raised to keep her A sea-captain of Sag Long pointed a moral upon the tombstone of his third ye living passing How thick the partners of one husband Vast and the ways of God Just but severe his chastening This in remembrance of a clock lyes a man who all his mortal life Past mending but d na mend his The larum hys bell was ne'er sae shrill As was her aye clacking like a But now he's gane whither nane can tell I hope beyond the soun Matty's One Robert Kemp placed these lines on the tombstone his deceased She once was But 0 I her to thee And your humble Robert Let us take the taste out of our as the children with the following exquisite couplet to the memory of a man and his wife in the church of first departed she a little tried To live without him liked it not and The difficulties of which have been so far overcome in our proved too obstinate for the writers of these two more's the All that remains of Nicholas N. B. His name was lies the remains of Thomas The most amiable of husbands and excellent of men-N. B. His real was Woodcock but it wouldn't come in His Some of the most amusing epitaphs in Northend 's book are in This one is from a tombstone in of Shiloh April John D. Li was born March in the town of West State of New where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at A tombstone at Saratoga contains the following testimony and warning of Abraham and Matilda C and wife of Theodore S- died AE 26 leaving children married too young against her father's Single women take An inscription on a in East Tennessee concludes thus lived a life of died of the cholera caused by eating green in the hope of a blessed at the early age of 21 years 7 months and 16 go thou and do On the tombstone on Lake Superior these words are inscribed J S Accidentally as a mark of affection by his They commemorate differently in as witness this inscription on a tombstone near San Diego yere is sacred to the memory of William who cairn to his deth by bein shot by Colt's revolver one of the old bras and of is the 1 of It was a we imag- who deplored his child this V Little Jacob Has been Taken this Earthly Garden To Bloom In a superior Flower-pot Only a German could have written is dead If she'd had life till next she'd been dead two As a tree falls so must she All is impossible mit |
