NEVER WENT WRONG
A WATCHMAKER’S EPITAPH. When visiting friends in Devon recently, writes Mr. W. Knowles, of Newcastle, to a London paper, I was taken to see an old tombstone'bearing this unique epitaph to a watchmaker: “Here lies in a horizontal position the Outward Case of George Routleigh, watchmaker, whose abilities in that line were an, honour to his profession. Integrity was the ' Mainspring and prudence the Regulator of all his actions. His Hand never stopped to relieve distress, so regulated were his emotions. He never went Wrong; all knew his Key. “His Hburs glided by till an unlucky Minute put a period to his existence. He died November 24, 1802, aged 57. ’ Wound Up in the hope of being taken in Hand by his Maker. Cleaned and Repaired and Set Going in the world to come.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1940, Page 12
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