"BILL STUMPS, HIS MARK"
The Dublin Mail was the victim of a hoax which reminds one of the famous discovery bv Mr Pickwick. The Moil published the following letter from a correspondent:—"! enclose a copy of an inscription in medieval Latin from a stone discovered during the excavations now proceeding at Cork Hill, near which stood a church dcdica ed to a saint and missionary known to the chronicles by the name of tTncatus Ambulans; Perhaps i copy be suitable for your extensively read paper, and some of your antiquarian readers might be able to supply a translation. The inscription is as follows: I «SABILLI • H(ERES'AGO ' FoRTIBI'S ' ES IN. AKONosces 'mabi 'thebs 'trux •Voxis 'INNBM .... 'PBS AN 'DtJX." The Freeman's Journal of yesterday gives a translation which may, it says, suit all purposes I say, Billy, here's a go, Forty busses in a row. No, says Mary, they be trucks. What is in 'ton! Pern tad ducki,
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1521, 26 February 1886, Page 3
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157"BILL STUMPS, HIS MARK" Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1521, 26 February 1886, Page 3
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