Outwitting the Parson.
A rather amusing incident occurred recently to a reverend gentleman, who is a popular preacher in a city not more than twenty miles away. He went to have his likeness taken-at a photographer’s, and put on a snrplicqin an'ante-room. When Ushered into the manipulating room, he was pot a little disconcerted on seeing a Circassian beauty, in full costume chained and on her knees, her countenance expressing the pleadings of a broken-hearted girl on being dragged before the Mussulman proprietor of a happy harem family. The reverend gentleman, as soon as he had recovered from his surprise, took an interest in the high proceeding, and ventured to suggest that the veil fell too far across her face. “ Would you kindly show me what you mean 1" said the man of shades and shadows. The reverend gentleman was kind enough to do so. The flash of light was wickedly employed ; for, to his horror, .it may be related, if he see? this anecdote, that the popular preacher was taken in dramatic attitude, with a Circassian slave'appealing to him from her thraldom. The feelings of the reverend gentleman when he afterwards saw the picture exposed at the entrance to the photographer’s establishment as a “ high art” product, may be better imagined ihan described,-—Troy Press.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 299, 4 August 1875, Page 7
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