STRANGE EPITAPHS. 197 



" From Ulverstone : 



" ' Here lies my wife, 



Here lies she, 

 Hallelujah, 

 Hallelujee.' 



" From Don caster: 



" ' Here lies two brothers, by misfortune surrounded, 

 One died of his wounds, and the other was drownded.' 



" I cannot recollect where I saw the following, but I can 

 answer for its being genuine : 



" ' Sacred to the memory 

 Of Miss Martha Grwynne, 

 She was so very pure within, 

 She burst the outward shell of sin, 

 And hatched herself a cherubim.' 



" The present Bishop of Quebec, the Right Reverend Gr. 

 J. Mountain, mentioned to me one which he had himself 

 seen in some burial ground in England, of which I forget 

 the name. 



Here lies 



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She had two bad legs and a very bad cough, 

 But it was the bad legs that carried her off.' 



" These are certainly strange and grotesque instances ; 

 but I admire ' John Shaw ' most." 



" Come, come, leave off this nonsense ; we have now a 

 nice breeze, and shall shortly be abreast of the Petite 

 Romaine, and must determine whether we shall land there 



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