TOMBSTONE SIXPENCES.
The ancient ceremony of distributing Mxpences from a tombstone to widwoa took pi•)<•<> at St. Bartholomew the (Jrent, Sniithfieid, (London), I'oe.Mitb. The ror-iincnts and spwVators bad to enter the small endowed graveyard by means of a ladder, and according to tne t.this of the bequest, the twenty-one widow had to walk across the tomi)>tono and pick tip the eon. This >' ihe eldest woman was ninety-three and the youngest forty-eigbt.
lt's Im tier to love to-day than tomorrow. A pleasure p.Wponed is a pleasure lost.—A Ricard. IViendshii. closes its eyes rather than see the moon eelms.-1: while mal-i/-e denies that it is ever at the full.— Hare. . , , To weigh other minds by our own is the fa's-" scale bv which the greater number of us miscalculate a'l human actions and most human characters.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 191, 14 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)
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134TOMBSTONE SIXPENCES. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 191, 14 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)
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