The epitaph of John Bonyton ran in this wise:
“Here lies John Bonyton, Sagamore of Saco:
He lived a rogue, and died a knave, and went to Hobomoko.”
This ungracious rhyme was current in the colony of Maine somewhere about 1684, being the epitaph of a man little understood in his own times, and greatly traduced by the pen of novelist, if not of the historian. When the reader understands that Hobomoko, or Hobomok, was the Indian appellation for the father of lies, it will be seen that the sarcasm or slander, whichever it may be, was the more inveterate.
THE END.
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THE SILENT HUNTER;
OR,
THE SCOWL HALL MYSTERY.
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