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Show HUMOROUS EPITAPHS. In the churchyards of this country-are country-are to bo found many peculiar and humorous epitaphs. Hero is one from a Pembrokeshire churchyard: Here lie I, and no wonder I'm dead, For the wheel of the wngon went over my head. In Western am churchyard, Kent, there Is to be found an epitaph in which grammar has been neglected for the sake of rhyme: Cheerful In death I close my eyes; Into thy arms, my God, I files. An epitaph on a man of the name of George Denham runs as follows: Here lies the body of Geordlo Denham; Den-ham; If ye saw him now ye wadna ken him. An apltaph in Wolverhampton churchyard reads as follows: Here Ho the bones Of Joseph Jones, Who ate whilst ho was ablo; But once o'erfed, He drop down dead, And fell beneath the table. When from the tomb, To meet his doom, He rises amidst sinners, Since he must dwell In heav'n or hell, Take him which gives best dinners. From Canterbury we have an example exam-ple written by a sorrowing widower: Of children sho bore twenty-four; Thank tho Lord, there will be no more. In Worcester churchyard may be found the following: Mammy and I together lived just two years and a half. She went first, I followed next iThe cow beforo the calf. Tit-Bits. oo A clerk in a hard-working Government Govern-ment office was watching from the window of his room a couple of navvies nav-vies employed on street repairs. The navvies in their turn were watching tho clerk. The clerk (turning to companion) r say, Tom, here are a couple of splendid splen-did specimens of the British workmen. work-men. I've been watching two fellows out hero for the last half hour, and they haven's done a stroke of work all the time." About the same time ono navvy turned to the other and said: "Blow me, but that cove up there at tho window ain't done a thing but pick 'Is teeth for the last 'arf hour! They have got a fine time of It there, an' no mistake." |