RARE EPITAPHS.

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."]

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Sin,—The following epitaphs are Scotch, and may be interesting to many of your readers :— In a country churchyard near Paisley :—

"Once reddie and plump,

Tho' now a cold lump, Beneath this old stump, Lies honest Joe Clump, Who wished his neighbours no evil ; Tho' now by death's thump, It is laid on his rump; And up he shall jump, When he hears the last trump, In triumph o'er Death and the Devil!"

On John Davie, bookbinder, Kilmarnock, well known for being, while in life, constantly on the trot :—

"Here rests John Davie, say he may, For faith the body's tired,

Who never rested night nor day, Till that day he expired."

On Joshua Lodge, tailor in Edinburgh :— "Here lies the body o' Joshua Lodge, Wha died for want of mair cabbage ; He never fail'd to hae a goose, Whilk was nae dainty in his house.

Bat death at last earn' till his bed, An' shot his dart into his head, But left his wife to stay behind, To eat what cabbage she could find."

In Leslie Churchyard, Fifeshire :— " Here lies the body of Andrew Brown, Sometime a wright in Lannon toon,

In the year seventeen huner and seventy-three, When coming his parents for to see, Of a cauld and a sair host,

He died upon the Yorkshire coast."

On a schoolmaster in Cleish parish, Fifeshire :— " Here lie Willie If— hies banes : 0 Satan, when ye tak him,

Gie him the schulin o' your weans, For clever de'ils he'll mak 'em."

An eccentric character named John So, a native of Innerkip, bequeathed his property to a friend, on the condition that he would get engraved on his tombstone the following epitaph written by himself :—

" So died John So, So so did he so, So did he live, So did he die, So so did he so, So let him lie."

Sunnyside Cottage, Oban, N.B., August 11th.