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Ginx's Baby: His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire

  
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PREFACE.
  
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.''
  
CONTENTS.

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PART I. WHAT GINX DID WITH HIM.
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I.—Ab initio.
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II.—Home, sweet Home!
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III.—Work and Ideas.
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IV.—Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilating the History.
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V.—Reasons and Resolves.
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VI.—The Antagonism of Law and Necessity.
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VII.—Malthus and Man.
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VIII.—The Baby's First Translation.
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PART II. WHAT CHARITY AND THE CHURCHES DID WITH HIM.
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I.—The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word.
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II.—The Protestant Detectoral Association.
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III.—The Sacrament of Baptism.
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IV.—Law on Behalf of Gospel.
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V.—Magistrate's Law.
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VI-Popery and Protestantism in the Queen's Bench.
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VII.—A Protestor, but not a Protestant.
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VIII.—"See how these Christians love one another.''
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IX.—Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences.
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X.—The Force—and a Specimen of its Weakness.
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XI.—The Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace.
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XII.—No Funds—no Faith, no Works.
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XIII.—In transitu.
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PART III. WHAT THE PARISH DID WITH HIM.
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I.—Parochial Knots—to be untied without prejudice.
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II.—A Board of Guardians.
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III.—"The World is my Parish.''
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IV.—Without prejudice to any one but the Guardians.
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V.-An Ungodly Jungle.
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VI.—Parochial Benevolence—and another translation.
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PART IV. WHAT THE CLUBS AND POLITICIANS DID WITH HIM.
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I.—Moved on.
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II.-Club Ideas.
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III.—A thorough-paced Reformer—if not a Revolutionary.
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IV.—Very Broad Views.
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V.—Party Tactics—and Political Obstructions to Social Reform.
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VI.—Amateur Debating in a High Legislative Body.
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PART V. WHAT GINX'S BABY DID WITH HIMSELF.
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The Last Chapter.

  
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I.—Parochial Knots—to be untied without prejudice.

THE infant borne to the workhouse of St. Bartimeus was Ginx's Baby. When he had been placed on the floor of the matron's room, and examined by the master, that official turned to the unwelcome bearer of the burden.

"Did you find this child?''

"Yes.''

"Where?''

"Lying opposite my shop in Nether Place.''

"What's your name? ''

"Doll.''

"Oh! you're the cheesemonger. Your shop's on the other side of the boundary, in

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the other parish. The child ought not to come here; it doesn't belong to us.''

"Yes it does: it wasn't on my side of the line.''

"But it was in front of your house?''

"Well, the line runs crossways: it don't follow the child was in our parish.''

"Oh, nonsense! there's no doubt about it! We can't take the child in. You must carry it away again.''

Mr. Snigger turned to leave the room.

"Wait a bit, sir,'' said Mr. Doll; "I shall leave the child here, and you can do as you like with it. It ain't mine, at all events. I say it lay in your parish; and if you don't look after it you may be the worse of it. The coroner's sure to try to earn his fees. Good-night.''

He hurried from the room.

"Stop!'' shouted the master, "I say: I don't

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accept the child. You leave it here at your own risk. We keep it without prejudice, remember— without prejudice, sir!—without—''

Mr. Doll was in the street and out of hearing.

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