LIBRARY 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF 
 CALIFORNIA 
 
 SAN DIEGO
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, 
 BY DUFFIELD ASHMEAD, 
 
 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District 
 
 of Pennsylvania.
 
 DEDICATION- 
 To the ABSENTEE 5, with 
 
 heart -felt hopes for their 
 speedy recovery and return, 
 
 f / fc/ 
 
 these sketches, f without: 
 their Tcind permission] are 
 dedicated Ij the 
 
 A UTHOR.
 
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 The f arson sneezes j and, in, 
 great fear -for his precious 
 
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 life thinks he'd letter a o 
 to Europe for the 
 of his health.
 
 And his Family's I The. Parson 
 
 a
 
 Ht consults one of the. pillars 
 
 > 
 0,1 wL tttls him, or his threatene 
 
 rnalady - Pillar j uog esrs lak^ 
 Superior, J*a,rson thinks kc 
 couldn't stand the, climate.
 
 The 1/estry meets - one of 
 Pillars proposes to send, their 
 'Jteloved Pastor to more. Balmy 
 Climes ~ 
 
 u,/ia.ni.TLous n *o ft on was carried*
 
 ffe hastily aat/iers together 
 ntccssa-rU^ for his roy^ye - 
 (The. above sketch shows at, art 
 of the. baoyaoe.J 
 
 par
 
 The Parson ?-ectives an offerina 
 from his flock to defray /its travelli. 
 expanses- f~ft is much touched, by it 
 cirid con(jroitu,la-tcs hin\self that A.II 
 the. fouls are not dca.d yet.*- 
 
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 Comrn.<:?icts his. -farewell
 
 ffe descries his 
 
 at the thought of 
 
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 "from the, loved ones who so 
 
 substantially hoive 
 their devotion,.
 
 h* bids them all a.doo~
 
 effect on some of the 
 
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 A few letters of credit and
 
 M 
 
 left a i ir. t A a use 
 
 of
 
 He '& afloat ,' He 's
 
 some of their retinue 
 
 are znacuaed in, the 
 
 V/ 4*/
 
 On arriving in London,, he 
 fiimsefr and family on one. of the, 
 Znfluc7itial citizens
 
 To the intense 
 
 of tfie "influental citizen 
 
 who considers himstlf "in for it
 
 ft i 
 
 s 
 
 l* t the reverend J)octo7* .Dust i>$ a<x>- 
 Tus sus&czssor <zt 
 
 is 
 
 drowsiest substitute, is his successor- 
 lu,t is
 
 And the, Vestry raise 
 salary of the
 
 Effect of ffte Parisian Fashions 
 ILV 07i Pew son. Sourball and his 
 family.
 
 Tia fiad, bis ft air cut 
 IT? the French style , he 
 sends it home, in the. 
 manner /or his flock-
 
 Sourlait lvitk &.U the 
 
 rOVQlTLZ 

 
 is o7zly a Sew CU ray 
 
 n a Little 
 
 Vtltiyc-ttey
 
 last 
 
 IS Slowl i 
 
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 in, st,x 
 
 
 twLce
 
 receives a -fresh supply and, 
 to 
 
 
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 f 

 
 This Itina exhausted . he returns 
 
 */ 
 
 well satisfied, and thinking that if he 
 not.d'n,t been a. Z\irson, 4 he never would, 
 have got far frojn
 
 j 1 ( /K 
 
 15 received l 
 ine Pillars.
 
 / 
 
 f.V 
 
 And his wife ly 
 iJie Pillar -esses-
 
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 I 
 
 Portraits of some empty Pockets
 
 a returns one* more 
 /us own Fulit

 
 
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