Author: Epitaph Page 9

Poor Betty Conway, she drank lemonade at a masquerade, So now she's dead and gone away.

A zealous locksmith died of late, and did not enter Heaven’s gate. But stood without and would not knock , because he meant to pick the lock.

Here lies the landlord Tommy Dent In his last cosy tenement.

The milk of human kindness was Vny own dear cherub wife – I'll never find another one as good in all my life. – She bloomed, she blossomed, she decayed. – And under this tree her body we laid.

Returned – Unopened

This debt I owe is justly due, and I am come to sleep with you.

… Going! Going!! Gone!!!

Heave a sigh For old John Doak. He didn't know His brakes were broke

Here lies the body of Richard Hind, – Who was neither ingenious, sober, nor kind.

DOUBT – Martha Mae “Take the back roads!” • Bill – “It’s five o’clock somewhere!”

She drank good ale, good punch and wine and lived to the age of 99.

Blown upward out of sight: he sought the leak by candlelight

Died at the age of 102 at the hands of a justifiably outraged husband.

Constant Craps 1913-1977

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.

The dust of Melantha Gribbling Swept up at last by the Great Housekeeper

Here Lieth W.W. – Who never more will, trouble you, trouble you

Here lies Tommy Day, removed from over the way.

Ingenious youth, thou art laid in dust. Thy friends, for thee, in tears did burst.

… Here lies, returned to clay Miss Arabella Young, who on the eleventh day of May began to hold her tongue.

Rodney Dangerfield – There Goes The Neighborhood