The Tall Man from Dumfries

Here lies Andrew MacPherson,
Who was a peculiar person;
He stood six foot two
Without his shoe
And he was slew,
At Waterloo.

Raymond Lamont-Brown: Scottish Epitaphs. Chambers; Edinburgh, 1990

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