ON THE FUNNY SIDE
Town Talk
A story is going the rounds
about the death of an old hand named Bill ____. In his palmy days Bill was a
man
eater, but latterly he became
a beer chewer, and when he died there was not enough money left to pay for his
coffin so they knocked one
together for him out of kerosene boxes. The “coffin” stuck out at the end of
the old
spring cart and when nearing
the cemetery they found that the end of the “coffin” had broken away and the
body
emptied out on to the road.
Hastily returning in search of the body the hearse arrived in due course at the
cemetery.
Here, as the roughly nailed
together kerosene boxes and contents were being lowered into the grave, an
outback
ex-mate exclaimed “hundred and
Fifty test??. (illegible-possibly “tested”) That’ll be no good for Bill.”
Unknown-Plot 1146
Here lies “Shorty” rattlin along
40,000 blow flies can’t be wrong
1932-1991
