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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

• BOOK II.

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  Chap.

  • I. How Captain Waters threatened Lanky with the Bastinado if he
    sighed, 5

  • II. An Adventure, 12

  • III. How Captain Ralph informed Miss Henrietta Lee that War was
    the natural relation of the Sexes, 16

  • IV. An Encounter on the Highway, 23

  • V. Two Enemies, 30

  • VI. Old Friends, 36

  • VII. How Captain Ralph laid his commands on Mr. Lugg, 45

  • VIII. Ichabod: a Hebrew word, signifying the Glory has departed, 50

  • IX. Introduces a Gentleman once very popular in Virginia, 56

  • X. How Mr. Jack Hamilton, foxhunter and bachelor, aspired to the
    honors of a wig, a suit of black, and a gold-headed cane, 59

  • XI. The other Physician, 75

  • XII. A Landscape with Figures, 82

  • XIII. In which the Comedy proceeds, 86

  • XIV. At the Trap, and elsewhere, 100

  • XV. At the Hall, 106

  • XVI. Sketches the Court to which the Hon. Mr. Crow was accredited
    as Ambassador, 110

  • XVII. Crow makes a Speech on the Stamp Act and suffers the fate of
    popularity seekers, 114

  • XVIII. How the Ambassador was unhorsed and then horsed, 119

  • XIX. In which a Chariot and four horses come to the rescue, 123

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  • XX. The author of the MS. explains sundry things pertinent to this
    history, 128

  • XXI. How the whole Colony of Virginia went to the Jamestown Races,
    and what ensued, 132

  • XXII. Shadows of the Past: somewhat grotesque, 143

  • XXIII. Il segreto per esser felice, 148

  • XXIV. How the Seigneur Mort-Reynard preached and practised, 154

  • XXV. Generalship of Don Moustachio, 162

  • XXVI. How Henrietta returned the Diamond Necklace, 165

  • XXVII. The two Trees, 173

  • XXVIII. In which the history descends to the loves of Corydons and Phillises
    in Arcady, 178

  • XXIX. Visitors, 184

  • XXX. Utopian Dreams, 187

  • XXXI. How the Parson cursed the Captain both in Latin and French, 193

  • XXXII. How the Captain proved that Lanky was a great Nobleman in disguise,
    197

  • XXXIII. Grand Muster of the Cornstalk Regiment, 205

  • XXXIV. How Mr. Crow was tried for unofficer-like conduct, with other incidents
    of a forest picnic, 210

  • XXXV. The Seigneur Mort-Reynard takes his revenge on Don Moustachio, 216

  • XXXVI. The Seigneur Mort-Reynard catches a Tartar, 222

  • XXXVII. A Country Church in 1765, 228

  • XXXVIII. The Child and the Portrait, 232

  • XXXIX. How Captain Waters was challenged to mortal combat, 237

  • XL. On the ground, 243

  • XLI. Which the reader should by no means omit reading, 247

  • XLII. How Captain Ralph and Henrietta took a drive together, and
    what followed, 251

  • XLIII. In which Mr. Effingham starts with astonishment, 260

  • XLIV. Diagnosis and treatment of Dr. Mort-Reynard, 265

  • XLV. On a May evening, 270

  • XLVI. The Hurricane commences, 272

  • Epilogue, 281