Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — Died of a Fit. [ARTICLE]

Died of a Fit.

. Byron’s good sayings have been in all men’s mouths—in the mouths of some who have claimed them as their own. Many were admirable puns, others had a better claim to remembrance. The last time I met him—a long time ago—l sat next him at dinner. “So Poole, the tailor, is dead!” remarked our host. “Indeed! What did he die of?’ “Of a fit,” said Byron, at once; “what else could a tailor die of?” Lcn o t WoW.'