Epitaphs.
The inscriptions upon the tombs of the Douglases recalled other epitaphs; some one said of all the inscriptions yet seen, he thought that upon the tomb of the Duke of Devonshire gave us the best lesson.
It runs thus:
"Who lyeth heare?
Ye gude Yearle of Devenshere—
What he had is gone,
What he kept is lost,
What he gave—that he hath."
We were on the verge of moralizing. Some one scenting the danger, said he thought an equally suggestive epitaph headed one of the chapters of "David Elginbrod":
"Here lies David Elginbrod,