SKETCHES: BY N. P. WILLIS. ‘---- If I remember, You loved such stories once, thinking they brought Man to a fine and true humanity.’ Barry Cornwall. BOSTON: S. G. GOODRICH, 141, WASHINGTON ST. * * * * * MDCCCXXVII. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, _to wit_: _District Clerk’s Office._ Be it remembered, that on the thirtieth day of November, A. D. 1827, in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of America, _N. P. Willis_, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, _to wit_: ‘Sketches. By N. P. Willis. “---- If I remember, You loved such stories once, thinking they brought Man to a fine and true humanity.” Barry Cornwall.’ In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, ‘An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;’ and also to an act entitled ‘An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.’ JNO. W. DAVIS, _Clerk of the District of Massachusetts._ BOSTON: PRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. Stephen Foster, Printer. TO MY FATHER THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. PREFACE. In introducing this volume to the Public, the Author would simply remark, that it was written at different periods of a college life, which has just expired; (the Scripture Sketches at a very early part of it.) He has no intention of screening its faults, either of feeling or style, beneath his ‘score of summers;’ but as prefaces are the fashion, he has thought the mention of the fact would not be amiss in the promotion of a proper understanding between himself and his readers. CONTENTS. SKETCHES.