Written over the Ten Commandments in a church in Wales.
PRSVRYPRFCTMN
VRKPTHSPRCPTSTN
The meaning can only be developed by adding the vowel E, which makes the sense thus—
Persevere ye perfect men
Ever keep these precepts ten.
In a new farce, supposed to have been written by Maddocks, was the following curious pun:—A large party of soldiers surprising two resurrection men in a church-yard, the officer seized one of them, and asked him what he had to say for himself. "Say, sir! why, that we came here to raise a corpse, and not a regiment!"
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Monsieur Monge has drawn much from our countryman, Hamilton's work on Stereography but he has not mentioned his work.