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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

Page.

• PROSE WORKS.

• Pencillings by the Way 1

• Letters from under a Bridge 217

• Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil—Part I.—

• High Life in Europe—

• Leaves from the Heart-book of Ernest Clay 251

• The Marquis in Petticoats 269

• Beauty and the Beast, or the handsome Mrs Titton
  and her plain Husband 272

• Brown's Day with the Mimpsons 275

• Mr. and Mrs. Follett, or the Danger of meddling
  with Married People 278

• The Countess Nyschriem, and the handsome Artist 281

• My One Adventure as a Brigand 283

• Wigwam versus Almack's 285

• Miss Jones's Son 294

• Lady Rachel 298

• The Phantom Head upon the Table 300

• Getting to Windward 306

• The Wife bequeathed and resumed 310

• A Revelation of a Previous Life 313

• American Life—

• Count Pott's Strategy 316

• The Female Wand 318

• Two Buckets in a Well 323

• Light Vervain 326

• Nora Mehidy, or the strange Road to the Heart of
  Mr. Hypolet Leathers 330

• The Pharisee and the Barber 332

• Mrs. Passable Trott 335

• The Spirit Love of “Ione S—” 336

• Mabel Wynne 339

• The Ghost-ball at Congress Hall 342

• Born to love Pigs and Chickens 345

• The Widow by Brevet 348

• Those Ungrateful Blidgimses 352

• Dashes at Life—Part II.—

• Inklings of Adventure—

• Pedlar Karl 361

• Niagara—Lake Ontario—The St. Lawrence 366

• The Cherokee's Threat 372

• F. Smith 377

• Edith Linsey 383

• Scenes of Fear 404

• Incidents on the Hudson 410

• The Gipsy of Sardis 412

• Tom Fane and I 429

• Larks in Vacation 433

• A Log in the Archipelago 441

• The Revenge of the Signor Basil 445

• Love and Diplomacy 454

• The Madhouse of Palermo 457

• Minute Philosophies 460

• Loiterings of Travel—

• Lady Ravelgold 466

• Paletto's Bride 474

• Violanta Cesarini 479

• Pasquali, the Tailor of Venice 486

• The Bandit of Austria 489

• Oonder-Hoofden, or the Undercliff 501

• The Picker and Piler 504

• Kate Crediford 507

• Flirtation and Fox-Chasing 509

• The Poet and the Mandarin 512

• Meena Dimity, or why Mr Brown Crash took the
  Tour 516

• The Power of an “Injured Look” 518

• Beware of Dogs and Waltzing 521

• The Inlet of Peach-Blossoms 524

• The Belle of the Belfry, or the daring Lover 528

• Passages from an Epistolary Journal kept on a Visit
  to England 530

• My Adventures at the Tournament 543

• Sketches of Travel 549

• The four Rivers—the Hudson—the Mohawk—the
  Chenango—the Susquehannah 574

• Dashes at Life—Part III.—

• Ephemera 577

• [Consisting of a collection of the “jottings down”
  contributed to the New Mirror and other papers,
  deemed worth preserving as daguerreotypes of
  the present—as records of matters as they fly.]

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