WE extract the following from Mrs. Partington's "Carpet Bag of Fun":—

A STRING OF EPITAPHS.

"WEEP, stranger, for a father spilled

From a stage-coach, and thereby killed:

His name was John Sykes, a maker of sassengers,

Slain with three other outside passengers."

"Here lies the body of James Monk,

Suddenly drowned when he was drunk;

He paid his score, and cheated no man—

De mortius nil nisi bonum."