Beadle's Dime Novels No. 142: The Sagamore of Saco — page 98: what you’re looking at

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100 THB SAGAMORB, GH 8ACO. repose not. far from the: beautiful falls of the Saco, within sound of those waters which had witnessed his sorrows, hi mortifications and his triumphs—whose roar had been to him a perpetual inspiration. Here, for years, was pointed out the rude stone, with its. malignant epitaph, which marked the grave of a man born out of p The epitaph of John Bonyton ran in this wise : * Here lies John Bonyton, Sagamore of Saco; He lived «a rogue, and died a knave, and went to Hobomoko.” This ungracious Haha: was current in the colony of Maine somewhere about 1684, being the epitaph of a man little under- sivod in his own times, and greatly traduced by the pen of nov- elist, if not of the historian. When the reader understands that IlobomoKo, or Hobomok, was the Indian appellation for the father of lies, it will be seen that the sarcasm or slander, which- ever it may be, was the more inveterate. . . Conmcloooks.cohn