Funny Scottish epitaphs: Tom Purdie
On the death of his favoutite servant, Sir Walter Scott (1771 -1832) joined the long tradition of composers of funny Scottish epitaphs:
Here lies one who might be trusted with untold gold
But not with unmeasured whisky.
Raymond Lamont-Brown: Scottish Epitaphs. Chambers, Edinburgh,1990
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