CHAPTER V.
PEEWEE PREACHING.
Upon the following Sunday the Rev.Amos Peewee, D.D., made a suitable improvement of the melancholy event of the week.

He enlarged upon the uncertainty of life.

He said that in the midst of life we are in death.
He said that we are shadows and pursue shades.

He added that we are here to-day and gone to-morrow.
During the long prayer before the sermon a violent thunder-gust swept from the west and dashed against the old wooden church.

As the Doctor poured forth his petitions he made the most extraordinary movements with his right hand.