CHISELLING YOUR EPITAPH.
• Does -it strike,' you that; all'the time; day and night, you are making''your own: epitaph, ■According. as.ydu : act ! and speaklnow, people .willspeaK of you when you are: under the daisies/:: If youdrink bad tea your nerves, will soon.bealot'of tattered-ends, ; your, liver' will become a desolate waste, and your.temper; will be., the; curse>:of everybody/: about ; you.',.; And they'll write/something like they, wrote for the person who died and was buried at/Ash', in Kent:—-/ /■Poor John Thomas here he. lies; •■•'"■' . No ;bne; laughs,/and no one 1 cries,' ' ■■/' ~ .-Where:he's:gone,.and how he fares, - 7; : ■ '.. ;No orie'knows-.and .no one cares. .".■"■ But if you drink' good : tea—especially;,if you drink' the-prie - incomparably, best tea—your nerves .will be,- like' strings, perfectly:responsive and attuned;'you/will : never/-notice your liver; .your, temper will: be>as genial:as' ■ a spring/morning; and your very creditors will lovo' and honour you. The one incomparably best tea, of; course; is "Suratura."' '. :.,2
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 415, 26 January 1909, Page 3
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147CHISELLING YOUR EPITAPH. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 415, 26 January 1909, Page 3
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