An Epitaph A Day - October 24

Keeps Death's Spectre Away

On a horse thief:

He found a rope and picked it up,
And with it walked away.
It happened that to other end
A horse was hitched, they say.
They took the rope and tied it up
Unto a hickory limb.
It happened that the other end
Was somehow hitched to him.

Source:

Unger, Frederic William. Epitaphs: A Unique Collection of Post Mortem Comment, Obituary Wit, Quaint and Gruesome Fancy. Philidelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. 1904.