Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Bringing up the averages
Bringing up the averages
This tombstone I saw recently in an Oxfordshire graveyard tells a sad story.
If you cant read it, it commemorates the three children of Jabez and Bithiah Hayes, who all died in infancy between 1859 and 1864, two within a fortnight of each another.
However, if, as you walk on, reflecting gloomily on the frailty of the poor little Hayes kids, you happen to glance back at the stone, the inscription on the other side may cheer you up a little:
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