Killed with Kindness

From The (Glasgow, Scotland) Herald of Oct. 19, 2005:

Water works

[by KEN SMITH and DAVID BELCHER]

EDINBURGH makes it into Nigel Rees's book I Told You I Was Sick which is an anthology of graveyard epitaphs. The author says, although he has not seen it himself, that there is a gravestone there which states:

Erected to the memory
of John MacFarlane
Drowned in the Water
of Leith By a few affectionate friends

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I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs will be released Nov. 28.