Funny Scottish Epitaphs – the carpenter

William Fettes the Carpenter, Montrose, 1809

The handicraft that lieth here

For on the death truth should appear

Part of his bier his own hands made and in the same his body is laid.

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

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