Show Some Amusing Epitaphs phs Are there any amusing or curious epi epitaphs epitaphs on old headstones in your neigh neighboring neighboring boring boys boya and girls Pol Polly ly Jy Evans would be e glad to hear what they tb Y are lre If 1 you will kindly write to her Inscription is to be found on a aI al l I tombstone in an English church churchyard churchyard yard The rhe man to whose memory it was raIsed was as the writing ex CX explains plains fond of ot eating Here lie the bones Of or Joseph Jones Who Vho ate whilst he was able But once He dropped down dead And fell beneath the table When from has tomb To meet his doom He rises amidst sinners Since he must dwell In heaven or Take fake him which gives best dinners A stone in nn English churchyard shows this plaintive epitaph Th trade of ot the deceased while he was alive and the manner mann r of at his death are arc both f ex explained in the he quaint rhyme I Weep Veep stranger for a father spilled From a stagecoach and thereby killed His name namn was John Sykes a maker of o Slain with three oth r outside passengers gers g rs Enoch Wood a rustic celebrity who was locally famous as a cricketer died dle in and this was raised to his mem memory ory or Tread gently stranger neath this mound The rhe bones of ot Enoch Wood are laid Hard ll rd by the village ground Whereon in life lite he often played pla ed How oft in n vain the bowlers sought To bring an ond nd to Enochs stay How oft his curly ones have brought To Xo other batsmen dire dismay Alas no more hell make a score For faced by that grim boWler Gout lie He chanced to set get his Leg before And Death he umpire gave him His game of life Ufe Is played and won An bonest man brave gentle genUe sage ll Hell U hear the Victors meed Well VeU done When n God Go works out hii hb average av rage I |