Just Bones

Sir Patrick Hume, King’s High Commissioner to Parliament in Scotland, died in the S4th year of his age, 1714. Being observed to smile when on his death-bed, he was asked by Lord Binning what he was langhing at. He answered, “I am diverted to think what a disappointment the worms will meet with when they bore through my thick coffin, expecting to find a good meal, and get nothing but the bones !“

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