Funny Scottish epitaphs – the mason

headstone of James Humphrey (1755 – 1844)

Below thir stanes lie Jamie’s banes’

O Death, It’s my opinion,

Thou ne’er took such bleth’ran bitch

Into thy dark dominian.

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

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