Subject: Epitaphs (Page 7)

School is out. Teacher Has gone home

Reader, I've left this world, in which I had a world to do; sweating and fretting to get rich: just such a fool as you.

He had sand in his craw, But was slow on the draw, So we planted him ‘neath the daisies.

Here lies Lotta Dust.

Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; when alive he was Mudd, but now he's only dirt

Jack Lemmon In…

I had a lover's quarrel with the world

And this is all that’s left of thee , thou fairest of earth’s daughters. Only four pounds of ashes white, out of two hundred and three quarters.

He got a fish-bone in his throat and then he sang an angel's note.

Samuel Gardner was blind in one eye and in a moment of confusion he stepped out of a receiving and discharging door in one of the warehouses into the ineffable glories of the celestial sphere.

Here lies – Johnny Yeast – Pardon me – For not rising.

“I did it my way and I wound up here.”

Here lies within this tomb, so calm. Old Giles; pray sound his knell; who thought no song was like a psalm, no music like a knell.

Listen, Mother, Aunt and me, were killed, here we be. We should not had time to missle had they blown the engine whistle.

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

A man of letters it seems was he; the college made him L.L.D. The Order a P.G.W.C. Grim death has given him the G.B., and may his ashes R.I.P.

Here lies the body of Robert Lowe. Whither he’s gone I do not know. If to the realms of peace and love, farewell to happiness above. If to a place of lower level, I don’t congratulate the d—l.

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

Peter Letig was his name, Heaven I hope his station, Baltimore was his dwelling place and Christ is his salvation.

'Gone fishing', the sign said that hung upon the door. An Angel had put it there, God Was waiting on the shore.

I am anxiously expecting you. A.D. 1827 — Here I am! – A.D. 1867