Show p 1 wn 1 Pack r of Cards U ed as Bible j S Soldier l er Accused of Impiety at Church Convinces es Magistrate That lie He Has lias Performed an Act of True Religious DevotIon x J e Daley d df S Floral court t the th b echo but built t the Joo looP 1 on a avenue hu has in his Po posses SIGn book bo abut to Inches he over with him from E meaty mAJ years pews ago ngo and ana which he has e In his 1 pocket foro Dr 1 twenty ye The W is e entitled S s or Pack Pac ot of 1 Cards S p d Ahio the Railway to T Good 30 Street 11 The e bOI let is ie illustrated on the leCt hand had pa pah a with pic pictures turN oJ playing cards ands and railway trains The Preface is as s Th The Shew ho hots ope o ie Richard Middleton eton leas f tatted tile the Mayor ot of tile the City he was in far using Cards In Church dur during during ing Ser e being beJ a droll merry and is an od oda a fl I r that baPpe d to a Private Soi In n the Sixt Regiment of ofAs Foot t tAs As will be seen cen by y the te teal the spell in is hat and the us of capital letters and co commas quite profuse Tha Story runs I Puns Pulls Out His Cards I The serj ant commanded his party to the church and when the parson pad bad ended hIs prayer he took his text and aud n it or of th them m th that t had a t tou ou to find the text but this s dIer hod d neither Bible Alm nor comm n Prayer Book but he put his hand his pocket and pulled pIled out rt It pack ot jf Cards and spread them before hind so dO dOh soh h sat t and while the parson w was s sl preaching l he first kept looking at one card and then at another hEe S er of the company saw h and said Richard put up your cards or orthis I this is no place for that said the soldier for you bave no business with me here Now the parson had ended liis 11 ser sermon mon and aU all was the soldiers re le repaired paired to the churchyard and the commanding officer save gae the w word rd o of command to tall fall in Which they did The he pf of the city came came and took the man you are ni m prisoner s said d he Sir said tit tha what have I dont done that I am pour leave a game j of cards ii ec a church reh uNe No said the have not playa a game for I only at a pack No matter for that you ou are my pris oer s r Where Niters rust t titis e go said tn the soldier foldier YoU mint mu go before fore t the mayor i said the Set Taken Before the e M Mayor So h he took him eore the mayor anal I when they c came me to the mayors house he was at dInner When he had dined he came to them and said Nell Ser what hat do you want with mci me I have havo Ju ought t a soldier before your for playing at t cards in the church What that soldier Yes well soldier what have hae to say for tor yourself Much sir I hope hape hopeWell Wen Well and good but if you ou have havo clot Ilot you shall be punished the worst that ever man was Sir said the soldier I have hae been bean five w eks the march and have but little to subsist upon and am wIthout either Bible I A i A attach ek or ayer Book orr or ora orra a mt a pal If off TI I hope to O your hon honour Ur of the purity o om of m my intention When l the e l d out of Cf his pocket the pack or of carols as which he spread before U tie mayol and began the ace aee ns Big JUs stem S When I 1 see the ac ace said he it puts me in that ahat there is ol otie e God only when I see the tho deuce it putS m mb in mind oJ of the Father and the Son when I see the troy tray it puts me mind of the Father Son and HolI I se seethe th r it i puts me meIn meIn In mind of tt the four sange that preached he the thc gOSp I viz iz Matthew r ke and Johr when he I see fee the five it puts me In mind of the tho five fie wise vIrgins th that trimmed their eil lamps there were weirs teu b but t fig were W who h w ou t see sec the six it p puts ta me In mind that sIx days aas 1 the Lord made heaven and earth when I see the seven it puts me In l that the se w God rested from alt the workS which he had created cre created and ma made e wherefore the Lord ed the 3 day and I it when I see the eight it puts me mein mein in mind of the eight righteous persons persons that were vere sa saved d when God dr drowned the world vi Noah oah his wise wife three sons and their wives hen Isee I see the nine it puts me In m nd of tIc the nine Ieper that were cleansed b bour by our f t i ro were ten but nine never nod dj God d thanks s when I Isee see the ten it Ir putS me me in mInd of the theten ten commandments that God pave nYe Moses on Mount Sinai on the ta table le of stone on He took t ok t nd laid id it t aside c I see e the t n it tP puts ts me ill mind of the quee of Sheba who cume I from the parts or ul the world to t Tar the wisdom of Bing Solomon nn fOr she Vas hs as wl wise n a wOman as he was a man for she had brought fifty bo boys s and fifty girls an all clothed in bo boys ei tb show before King Solomon for Dr him to lo tell teU which were bo boys s and were er trot 1 he could not and he called for water for them to wash them elves Hie he girls rl washed hed up to fife their elbows and the boys only up to their wrist so King Solomon tOld b by t that a t And i when liea I see seethe ce ceth th the king 1 puts me in mind of tte he King of lJ Heaven I and Earth whIch is God Y and his majesty ma jest jesty King George to pra pray for OJ him Weli said the mayor you have dv a verl good gOOt de or of all tl fi curds except one which ii i i t is that sara sad the sol I Itier tier ier TIe Tte knave said the mayor Oh 1 can give your fion r a 11 good goad de description I tion of th thin t if your honour wont be angry NoI o I c saId the may mayor or if yoU will not term tenn me to pe be pethe bethe the knave Well VeIl said the soldier the greatest that r i know of is the nt of the city that brought me here r know said the mn may mayor or That he Is Ue the greatest T knave but butI I am sur sure he is the Sl greatest at st fool Show Divisions ns of Year When I count homan how many spots there are in a pack ot Of cards I find there are three hundred and there are so many daS days In the year when I count how man many cards there are in a apack pack I find there are there i areso r oma many Y weeks ekS in the year Wh when Jf IF man meaty tricks ales t are i in nj tJ th 1 hk k there are re thirteen t there hn are ape aren n m many ny months month In no a year The lr J Js s utts it ond t to four n You see e sir that his s pa pact of cards card ki 16 kia a Bible k an and Common 1 Pro Prayer er k aud Pack of Cards to tome m me Then rhen the mayor called for a loaf pf pC bread a piece of cLeese an aud a pet of oC good beer and gave to the soldier Id r n a apiece piece of money bidding him to So go abo about t his bUsiness he was th the man he had ad evEr The back of the book bouk contin a ap p poem em of questionable JJ merit from 1 lit IH crary standpoint Railway to Perdition This Line begins In the Brewe Brewery and runs through all Public Houses Dram Shops Jerry St j jin ivy in a zigzag direction until it h lea leafu to the Kingdom of Perdition t I |