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Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,
Dig five-feet deep, and you will find a Penny.

320. From Penclawdd Churchyard, near Swansea

Upon an only child:—

I will make my first-born higher than the Kings of the Earth.

321. From Mathern Churchyard, Chepstow:—

To the memory of Joseph Lee, who died in 1825, aged 103 years.

Joseph Lee is dead and gone,
We ne’er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old drab coat,
All buttoned down before.

322. On “Johnnie Laddie.”

In the Brachlach burying-place, near the Fort George Station, may be seen
the following epitaph on one of the tombstones there:—

Sacred to the memory of a character, John Cameron, “Johnnie
Laddie,” a native of Campbeltown, Ardersier, who died there August
26, 1858, aged 65 years. Erected to his memory by public
subscription:

Sixty winters on the street,
No shoes nor stockings on his feet;
Amusement both to small and great,
Was poor “Johnnie Laddie.”

323. From Poundstick Churchyard, Cornwall:—

Both soul and body coming here to try
The things of earth they found but vanity;