DEATH OF ABSALOM.
The general idea is that Absalom, fleeing through a wood, was caught by the hair of his head on the bough of a tree, and thus met Ills death; but the Bible says (2 Sam. xviii, 0). "Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went undei the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth." Apparently his chin was caught bv a branch of'the oak, and the mule ran off. There is nothing said about his hair getting entangled in the oak. Yet everyone knows the doggerel: Oli Absalom, oh Absalom, my son, my son, Hatlst thou but worn a periwig, thou haust not been undone 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 11
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128DEATH OF ABSALOM. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 11
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