I'll be where loud anthems will always be ringing;
But having no voice, I'll be clear of the singing;
Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never,
I'm going to do nothing, forever and ever."
Mrs. Whann, the weeping widow of a well-known man, requested that the words "My sorrow is greater than I can bear" be placed upon the marble slab of her dear departed.
A few months later the lady returned and asked how much it would cost her to have the inscription effaced and another substituted.
"No need of that, marm," replied the man, soothingly; "you see, I left jes' enough room to add 'alone.'"
THE TOMBSTONE MAN (after several abortive suggestions)—"How would simply, 'Gone Home' do?"