CURIOUS EPITAPHS
In Cheltenham old parish churchyard is an epitaph which runs — John Higgs, Pigkiller, 1815, Here lies John Higgs,_ A famous man for killing pigs; For killing pigs was his delight. Both morning, afternoon and night. Both heats and colds he did endure, Which no physician could e’er cure; His knife is laid, His work is done, I hope to Heaven his soul is gone. In the churchyard at Bolsover, Derbyshire. this epitaph will be found: — Here lies in an horizontal position the outside case of Thomas Hind, clock and watch maker, who departed this life wound up in hope of being taken in hand by his Maker. Thoroughly cleaned, repaired, and set a-going for the world to come. The following is in Polinu Churchyard, in West Sussex: The world is a round thing And full of crooked streets. Death is the market-placp Where all men meet. If life was a thing That money could buy, The rich would live And the poor would die. The following was, and perhaps is still, to be seen in a Newcastle churchyard : Here lies Robin Wallis, Clerk of All Hallows, King of good fellows, And maker of bellows. Ho bellows did make till the day of his death, But lie that made bellows could never make breath.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 7
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215CURIOUS EPITAPHS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 7
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