THE

PARSON, PEN, AND PENCIL:

OR,

REMINISCENCES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

OF AN EXCURSION TO PARIS, TOURS, AND ROUEN,
IN THE SUMMER OF 1847;

WITH

A FEW MEMORANDA ON FRENCH FARMING.

BY

G. M. MUSGRAVE, M.A.

VICAR OF BORDEN, KENT.

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET;
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1848.

LONDON:

Printed by S. & J. BENTLEY, WILSON, and FLEY,

Bangor House, Shoe Lane.

THE

PARSON, PEN, AND PENCIL.

CHAPTER I.

THE Clock-Gate at Rouen might, by the English people at least, be called Prout's gate; and, indeed, most of the narrow old picturesque streets, seemed in my regards little else than the solid substantial realities of many a series of admirable water-colour drawings, touched off with reed-pen and camel hair pencil, — vanbrown, madder, terra Sienna, lake, and warm greys,and rendered delightfully bright by favour of white Cauchoise caps, two feet high, and pendent lengths of many score yards of various coloured broadcloth, exhibited in display of the weaver's and dyer's excellences, from the third to the basement story. But, be it observed that these

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