6 PREFACE. 



The illustrations, while not up to the high art standard, pic- 

 ture scenery and incidents of which I was a part sufficiently 

 well. The most of them are from original sketches redrawn 

 and made available through wood and photo-engraving. In 

 a w^ork of so limited a circulation they involved an outlay 

 hardly w^arranted, except by my desire to represent and per- 

 petuate what has been heretofore unillustrated and now non- 

 existent save in memory. 



I have now accomplished what until lately I never seriously 

 thought of doing — wTitten a book. This act is what Job 

 wanted his enemy to do; either because he would lose money 

 or be criticized beyond the punishment of personal boils. 

 But hoping that the miseries of authorship only existed in the 

 imagination of that synonym of Patience, and that the peru- 

 sal of this work will add a mite to the pleasures of my readers, 

 I remain 



Their friend, 



The Author. 



Newtown, Pa., 10th mo., 1888. 



