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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

PAGE

• I. The Crampton Light Infantry and the Chalk Planetarium, 1

• II. Miss Gilbert visits the sky, and little Venus takes up her
  permanent residence there, 18

• III. Hucklebury Run and its enterprising proprietor, 33

• IV. Arthur Blague gets his hand in, and the proprietor meets
  with an unexpected revolution, 51

• V. Dr. Gilbert and his daughter “come to an understanding.” 74

• VI. The Mistress of Hucklebury Run and her accomplished
  daughter, 92

• VII. In which the Centre School of Crampton is handsomely provided
  for, 114

• VIII. Mrs. Ruggles spreads her motherly wings over Arthur, and is
  ungratefully repulsed, 129

• IX. Miss Gilbert completes her novel—a great success in the opinion
  of her friends, 146

• X. Dr. Gilbert among the New York publishers, 163

• XI. Tristram Trevanion is accepted, and Dr. Gilbert is rejected, 187

• XII. Arthur Blague is introduced to a new boarding-house, and
  Dan Buck is introduced to the reader, 208

• XIII. Dan Buck goes to church and recognizes an old acquaintance, 226

• XIV. Tristram Trevanion gets reviewed, and Miss Gilbert gets disgusted,
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• XV. Arthur Blague awakes from a pleasant dream.—So do Mr. and
  Mrs. Ruggles, 267

• XVI. Arthur's dreams, and Hucklebury Run and its proprietor,
  come to dissolution, 289

• XVII. Philosophical, but important to the story, and therefore to be
  read, 302

• XVIII. Mary Hammett's father has a very exciting time in Crampton, 312

• XIX. Mr. Kilgore recovers his health, and his daughter recovers
  something better, 333

• XX. Which contains a very pleasant wedding, and a very sad accident,
  353

• XXI. Being a bridge longer than the Victoria, and having only ten
  piers, 368

• XXII. Miss Gilbert gives and receives very decided impressions, 382

• XXIII. The Crampton Comet reappears, passes its perihelion again,
  and fades out, 399

• XXIV. Miss Gilbert receives a lesson which she never forgets, and
  which does her good all the days of her life, 414

• XXV. In which Arthur makes a great many new friends, and loses
  the most precious friend he has, 431

• XXVI. Describing an event of the greatest interest to Arthur Elague,
  Fanny Gilbert, and the reader, 449

• XXVII. Which changes the relations of some of our characters, relates
  the changes of others, and closes the book, 465