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HOLIDAY AMONG THE TOMBS,
FASCINATION OF EPITAPH HUNTING.
A holiday consisting largely of an itinerary of churchyards and a study of tombstones (writes Whitfield Crofts in the English Illustrated Magazine) may not at first
montion appear particularly exhilarating, and yet it is one calculated Lo appeal to many.
1 In such peregrinations one comes across many beauty spots, rarely invaded by strangers, with extremely interesting old churches and idyllic villages whose exist- ence une never suspects
The earliest epitaph in English is said to be found in an Oxfordshire church- The yard, and dates back to 1370, antique typography and the obsoleta
however, would,
renderit! language unintelligible to all but those versed in the literature of the period. The first few lines may be given here as a guide to any fortunate epitaph collector who
discover similar kind may
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The following:-
Honest John
's dead and gone, which will be found in the churchyard of St. John's, Worcester, has a high clair for terseness; and this again, for pithiness and force, would not be easy to Burpass
Here lies W.W.,
Ho will nevermore trouble you. - The longest inscription, by the way, at any rate to the memory of a celebrated personage, is to be found on a tombatons in the old church of Disley, near Stock- port of the centenarian, Joseph Watson, This runa of Lynn, who died in 1753. to upwards of 450 words, and gives an account of his life, character, and the mannor of his death..
Collectors of tombstone literature with
a penchant for those of a comic, droll, or humorous nature have a crowded field for exploration.
The must absurd that I can recall is the following much-quoted example, which I was told was to be found in Penryn churchyard, but which
to locate there:-
Here lie I
Killed by a Sky
Rocket
In my eye
Socket.
failed
Another rather similar opitaph, but not, I fancy, so woll-known, which I found and copied, records an accident which occurred to the son of a former parish clerk at Bampton, in Devonshire, who was killed by an icicle falling upon and fracturing his skull:--
Bless my i, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Her I lis
In a sad pickle, Killed by icicle
Another epitaph in a little Cornish churchyard tells us quaintly:
His end was th
He was ran over by a bug' An epitaph said to exist on a tombstone in this country, but which I have never seen definitely located, is evidently rustic so flagrant are the liberties it takes with
English grannar.
It runs:-
And am she dead, and are she gone? And have sho left I all alone?
-Oh, cruel fate! you is unkind
To take she fore, and leave I 'hind. In the epitaphs of a certain period punning was indulged in ad nauseam. Di this style of battered witticism," as Holmes terms it, we have many more or less laboured drolleries. One of the best of its kind, more creditable to the head, if not the heart, of the epitaphist, is the following upon a man named Cave, to be found in the churchyard of Barrow-upon- Soar, in Leicestershire:-
Here in this grave there lies a Cave;
We call a cave a grave,
If Cave be grase and grave he Cave,
Then render, judge, I crave,
Whether doth Cave is her in grave,
Or grate bere lie in Caro;
If grave in Cave here buried le,
Thon, grave, where is thy victory?
Go, reader, and report, here lies a Cave, Who conquers death and buries his own
grace:
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A puff by hor husband much praised, And here she doth lie and make a
"dirt-pie,"
In the hope that hor crust may be raised.
One correspondent writes: Quaint, epitaphs are a never-failing source of joy; though sometimes it seems cruel to laugh at what are, at least in intention. expressions of love and sorrow. The unconscious humour of the following, which I have seen myself, is, however, irresistible:
To the Memory
Keziah Stokes,
The beloved wife of John Stokes, Who died on Jan. 26th, 1893.
"Fence, perfect pence," Till we meet again."
Wo (Hongkong Daily Press) supplement the above hy a few remain in our own recollection,
might which
in the churchyard of Kingsbridge (Devonshire) there is one at the chancel entrance of the Church which reads:
Here lie I nt the chancel door,
Hore Hio I Leenuse I'm poor, The farther the more you pay,
Hore le I warm as they. Another in the same churchyard on stone erected to the memory of a girl reads:-
Gad takes the good-
Ton good on earth to stay;
And leaves the bad-
Too bad to take away.
in
In the neighbouring churchyard East Alvington there is one following terms:
11019
It was mentioned during the proceed- ings that Mesare Holt's were building another 14,000 ton steamer, and it is understood that they contemplate laying down two 20,000 ton vessels for Australian and South African trade à speech of the kind outlined above is so unusual in such circumstances that the shipping community is speculating whether the speech was not directly prompted by Captain Bartlett's directors,
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Mr. G. Merrick, of 20, Spring Street, by The South China Morning Post, Limited. the Ophirton, Johannesburg, writing on HOMESTEAD, No. 15, Peak Immediate
October 15th, 1012, says:
ancient In Beddington Church, an edifice partially restored in the last century, a quaint memorial was erected in 1634 by William Greenhill, M.A., in honour of his brother, Thomas Greenhill, steward of Sir Nicholas Carew, from which this play upon the "hill" in the Thus young men, when in his sieknast
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Ho once a hill was fresh and greene. Now withered is no to be scene, Earth in earth shoveled up is shut, A Hill into a hole is put
Those who remained awhile often hau an eyo to the main chance and used the tombstone as an effective means of adver. to be seen in An example tisement Pewsey, Wilts, which runs as follows: Beneath this stone, in hopes of Zion, Is laid the landlord of "The Lion," Resigned unto the Heavenly Will, His son keeps on the business still. At first sight the queer sentence, which closes the inscription on a tombstone in a churchyard in Leigh is perplexing. After announcing the nine and other particulars of the lady there buried, these words follow.
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But when this young rann buried was The Minister did thon adinit He should be carried into church, That he might inaney get,
By this you see what man will do Tu get money if he can, Who did refuse to come and pray By the aforesaid young man.
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A speech delivered on the 27th ult. at Durban at a luncheon on board Messrs.
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A virtuous woman is bs. to her husband. Afred Holt & Company's Blue Funnel worse, as in such a state that I was 6 PANFURLY, No. 11. Conduật Road, The expla
planation here is that space pre-line Nestor, returning from her maiden wie to give, the attention to my busi- gave Mother vented a crown" being put in full, and voyage to Australia, is causing comments it demanded. Then
shipping and mercantile circles, Baye Seigel's Syrup a trial. The third bottle the stonecutter argued that a
Captain effected a perfect cure." The Times correspondent. equals s
As surely as the sun dispels the Bartlett, commanding the Nestor, said he did not think that so long as Sir morning mist. Mother Seigel's Syrup will Donald Currie was head of the Union being relief if you suffer from the com Castle Line Messrs. Holt would have mon ailments of stomach, liver and competed for their business, because he bowels. knew his chief had an admiration for
The above specimens being reproduce. in the Pall Mall Gazelle cloited other from, correspondents. Here are some of them: →→→
On an infant dying as soon as it was boru, (Not by Milton.)
Ope'il his eyes--took a peop Didn't like it fell asleep.
On one William Button:-
O Sun, Moon, Stars, and ye Celestial Poles! Have graves, then dwindled into Button
... holes?
Here rest from their pains the mortal
remains Of Sophia Elizabeth Shoven,
Well versed in the art of pies, pastry, and
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They cannot contain the exact with Wharf.
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