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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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III.—"The World is my Parish.''

WHEN Mr. Phillpotts called upon Doll, the cheesemonger, the latter straightway gave him the facts as they had occurred. He pointed out the exact spot on which the bundle had lain; he gave an estimate of the number of inches on each side of the line occupied by it, and declared that the head and shoulders of the infant lay in the parish of the solicitor's clients. Ginx's Baby, under the title "Re a Foundling,'' was once more submitted for the opinion of counsel. They advised the Board that as the child was in both parishes when found, but had been taken up by a ratepayer of St. Simon Magus, the latter parish was bound to support him. Whereupon the Guardians of St. Bartimeus at their next meeting resolved that the Vestry

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of the other parish should have a written notice to remove the child, failing which application should be made to the Queen's Bench for a mandamus to compel them to do it.

On receiving the challenge the Guardians of St. Simon Magus also took counsel's opinion. They were advised that as the greater part, and especially the head of the infant, was when discovered in the parish of St. Bartimeus, the latter was clearly chargeable. Both parties then proceeded to swear affidavits. The Attorney-General and Solicitor-General, the two great law-officers of the crown, were retained on opposite sides, and took fees—not for an Imperial prosecution, but as petty Queen's Counsel in an inter-parochial squabble.

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