A SECOND METHUSELAH.

A STATUARY was directed to inscribe on a monument the age of the

deceased, namely 81. The person who gave the order recollecting,

however, that it should have been 82, desired the sculptor to add one

year more; and the veteran to whose memory this stone was erected, is

recorded as having "departed this life at the advanced age of 811!"

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