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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 110, 21 March 1864, Page 4

i (}ci:i:u Epitaphs.—ln Jliiloigh Churehvard, ! Suli'ulk [ "To :rt-f* nit* from i<* Mrife. l>ea» h railed a: n.y hon-e. but ho spoke with my wife. ! Susii.. wile ut' David I'ij;t i-<i. lie? lit-rt;--1 on. IPI tl. 17*>i» — i Slop, reader, rind if not in a hurry. shed a lour. ! In a ehun hyard in Gloucestershire the following is | said U> he insenbi-d by a Mr. Kemp on liis wilu (after ! ivcurding her name, age, anil time ol (loath): — i •• Whether in the other work! she'll Know lut brother John. {>:• s-.-rape aoqunintaneo wttH jler .-isler Soame. I> not lor me to inquire; lint this I knowshe oneo wius mine, A ni now To time, 0 Lord. 1 her ; And am your humble servant. Hubert Kemp." In Cheltenham Ohuvehyard : — '• lleru lie* the body of Molly DU-kio, tho wife of Hull Dickie tailor. ; '• Two jrreat pbvsieians tlrst Mv lovhu,-husband tried ' To cure my pain— in vain; ; Ai last ho j?oi a third, . And then 1 died." On a man '.vim was killed l>v hitting his head against a pump: — " lb-re lies John Adams, who ree'ived h thump, Ui-lit on tin; forehead, l'roin the I arish pamp: Whieh pive him Hie ,in the end, l or many dorters did hi* ease attend." I The follow \\vjr liy a husband was to he seen in TCishopuvanitotith Churchyard some sixty years since. it is quoted from memory by one who was struck with its quaintness:— "Oh! Death, eontdst thou bo so unkind. To tiike one without the other'- mind ? Ti.ou had.-d heller taken both if either, i' would have been more agreeable to the survivor.'' The subjoined is to been seen on tho tomb of a Timothy Matthews and an apple tree growing upon his grave, nut twenty miles from Hereford :— '• Who lie.s herer Timothy Matthews, fiive him some beer. A dead man beer, ah ! tor why? l'.eeausc when he was alive he was always dry ; Then up .-tops his old neighbour, Foot, And say*if bo is dry now, let him suck at the root." Timothy Matthews and I-'oot were always drinking at one it other's house ; .so that is supposed tho reaMm ii is put in a such a quaint style on his tomb. The lollowiiig may be seen on a tombstono in the i churchyard of Nottinghamshire:—- •' :>a« rcd to the memory of John Walker, the only non of Benjamin ami Ann Walker, engineer and palisade maker,died x-piember Si a«ed :\\i vears. • I'awweU, my wife and father dear ; .No engine powers now do 1 fear. My u!a>s is run, my work is done. And now my head lies.|uiet here. ' ' l: '-' many a engine I've >et up. r And .to| irreal praise I'rom men, I mad.: ! hem Work on IJritish ground, '.nil -II : he r mh; »l\ en i:1 1«■"> >t i»-. e I. m.\ valves are b;.d. \ii-l (.-• • d; ♦',> ili.lii ; ! \'i est ;i;uv:' i-.;. 1 :! i,r found i To pat me new on.'., i;». Kul i ':Vi-l < .-n V i't «. :l mi'.