Hod Putt + 

Here I lie close to the grave + 

Of Old Bill Piersol, + 

Who grew rich trading with the Indians, and who + 

Afterwards took the bankrupt law + 

And emerged from it richer than ever + 

Myself grown tired of toil and poverty + 

And beholding how Old Bill and other grew in wealth + 

Robbed a traveler one night near Proctor’s Grove, + 

Killing him unwittingly while doing so, + 

For which I was tried and hanged. + 

That was my way of going into bankruptcy. + 

Now we who took the bankrupt law in our respective ways + 

Sleep peacefully side by side. + 