A Grave Matter

Filed under: brew ha ha — the colonel at 3:57 am on Monday, May 14, 2007

According to a not-so-reliable source, the following epitaph can be found on the grave of a brewer in Islington:

Poor John Scott lies buried here
Though once he was both ‘ale and stout:
Now death has drawn his bitter bier
In a better world he hops about

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Comment by schlinky

05.16.07 @ 10:34 am

Was he by any chance one of the Islington lumberjacks? I thought he might have been a lager …

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