Author: Epitaph Page 22

Charity, wife of Gideon Bligh, underneath this stone doth lie. Nought was she e'er known to do, that her husband told her to.

I’m A Writer But Then Nobody’s Perfect

Here lays Butch. We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger – But slow on the draw.

Our papa dear has gone to Heaven, to make arrangements for eleven.

Here lie I and my three daughters, All from drinking the Cheltenham waters. While if we had kept to the Epsom salts, We should not now be in these here vaults.

Here lies Slip Mcvey. He would be here today, but bad whiskey and a fast gun put him away

This man when alive was a slave, but behold such is fate, having died he is equal in power, to Darius the Great.

No doctor ever physicked me, was never near my side. But when fever came I thought of the name, and that was enough – I died.

Entombed within this vault a lawyer lies, who, fame assureth us was just and wise, an able advocate and honest too; that's wondrous strange, indeed, if it be true.

The devil slipped in like a weasil – And down to Hell he took old Kezle.

She failed her breathalizer test now she lays with the best

Tears cannot restore her –– therefore I weep.

Here lies Granny Beth Sue Choked to death On Redman Chew

At last I get top billing.

A Man.

To follow you I am not content, How do I know Which way you went.

Here lies a man beneath this sod, – Who slandered all except his God, – And him he would have slandered too, – But that his God he never knew.

Here lies interred Priscilla Bird, who sang on earth till sixty two. Now up on high above the sky, no doubt she sings like sixty too.

He has gone to the only place where his own works are excelled.

Here lies a man who while he lived was happy as a linnet. He always lied while on the earth and now he's lying in it.

Mr. Fish. Worms are bait for fish, but here's a sudden change, fish is bait for worms. Is not that passing strange?