_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!_"