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The subjects of all my sketches were veritable characters, and the incident related feels colored just sufficient to make them palatable to the class of readers for whom they were intended. While I wrote to amuse, however, I endevored to print a moral, and for this reason, and also because they serve to show the bent of my mind at the time in contrast to what it is now, and thus magnify to a greater unclear the grace of God, which in these latter days has brought me out of nature's darkness with the marvelous light of the Gospel, /for this season I say/I feel justified in placing them on record with the rest of my life's experience. The following sketch, not only shows the "Ruling unclear strong in Death," but the folly and wickedness of giving all up for the things which perish. Elkanah Dutson was of the tall, lean and lank order of beauty. His features and his unclear his unclear and his unclear, were all angles; and his business unclear was as sharp as his features. Imagine a man with a nose forming a perfect right angle triangle with the surface of his face, and set between unclear sparkling gray eyes, the likes of which unclear by converge till they met in a point just above a very prominent pointed cheek bone; and a mouth that cannot be described by words; and