Pray for the soul of Gabriel John;
You may, if you please,
Or let it alone;
For it’s all one
To Gabriel John,
Who died in the year 1001.
A POWERFUL PREACHER.
“Ah, Sir!” exclaimed the elder in the tone of pathetic recollection,—“our late minister was the man! He was a poorfu’ preacher; for i’ the short time he delivered the word amang us, he knock’d three pupits to pieces, and dang the guts out o’ five Bibles.”
EPITAPH.
I, Sir John Trollop,