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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

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• The Inn Kitchen, 9

• The Spectre Bridegroom, 11

• A Wet Sunday in a Country Inn, 24

• An Obedient Hen-pecked Husband, 27

• A Desirable Match, 31

• A Rival, 33

• An Invitation, 35

• A Dutch Entertainment, 36

• War, 39

• English Stage Coachmen, 40

• The Waltz, 41

• Dutch Tea-parties, 42

• Cosmogony, 44

• Dutch Legislators, 51

• The Little Man in Black, 54

• My Aunt Charity, 60

• Will Wizard, 65

• Style, 69

• Frenchmen, 72

• The Wife, 73

• To Anthony Evergreen, Gent., 79

• Showing the Nature of History in General.—furthermore,
  the Universal Acquirements of William the
  

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  Testy, and how a man may learn so much as to
  render himself good for nothing, 80

• Dirk Schuiler and the Valiant Peter, 88

• Description of the powerful Army that assembled at
  the City of New-Amsterdam—together with the interview
  between Peter the Headstrong and General
  Von Poffenburgh, and Peter's sentiments respecting
  unfortunate great men, 91

• Of Peter Stuyvesant's Expedition into the East Country,
  showing that though an Old Bird, he did not understand
  Trap, 96

• How the People of New-Amsterdam were thrown into
  a great Panic by the news of a threatened Invasion,
  and the manner in which they fortified themselves, 103

• The troubles of New-Amsterdam appear to thicken,
  showing the bravery in time of Peril of a People
  who defend themselves by Resolutions, 106

• The Widow and her Son, 113

• Storm at Sea, 119

• John Bull, 120

• Consequence, 130

• The Cockloft family, 131

• Conversion of the Americans, 139

• Tom Straddle, 142

• Sleepy Hollow, 147

• Ichabod Crane, 149

• Superstition, 152

• The Broken Heart 154

• A Wreck at Sea, 161

• Land, 162

• Genius, 163

• A Contrast, 164

• Letter from Mustapha Rub-a-dub Keli Khan to Asem
  Hacchem, Principal Slave-Driver to his Highness
  the Bashaw of Tripoli, 168

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• A warlike Portrait of the Great Peter, 173

• Mutability of Literature, 182

• Book-Making, 184

• A Dutch Settler's Dream, 188

• The Pride of the Village, 189

• Domestic Scene, 196

• Master Simon, 197

• Perseverance, 198

• Doleful Disaster of Anthony the Trumpeter, 198

• The Grief of Peter Stuyvesant, 200

• The Dignified Retirement and Mortal surrender of
  Peter the Headstrong, 200

• Morning, 205

• The Author's Account of his History of New-York, 206

• Westminister Abbey, 207

• Master Henry Hudson, 208

• Master Robert Juet, 209

• A Dutch Voyage of Discovery, 210

• Letter from Mustapha Rub-a-dub Keli Khan to Asem
  Hacchem, Principal Slave-Driver to his Highness
  the Bashaw of Tripoli 211

• Autumnal Reflections, 216

• The Family of the Lambs, 220

• Blindmans'-Buff, 223

• The Angler, 223

• Rural Life in England, 225

• Letter from Mustapha Rub-a-dub Keli Khan to Muley
  Helim al Raggi, surnamed the Agreeable Ragamuffin,
  chief Mountebank and Buffo-dancer to his
  Highness, 228

• James I. of Scotland, 236

• How Peter Stuyvesant relieved the Sovereign People
  from the burden of taking care of the Nation—with
  sundry particulars of his conduct in time of peace, 236

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• Showing the great difficulty Philosophers have had in
  peopling America—and how the Aborigenes came to
  be begotten by Accident, to the great relief and satisfaction
  of the Author, 244

• Wouter Van Twiller, 250

• The Grand Council of New-Amsterdam—with reasons
  why an Alderman should be Fat, 254

• Ichabod Crane and the Galloping Hessian, 258