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The Youth of Jefferson

by John Esten Cooke

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  1. 1Epigraph — To the Reader
  2. 2Chapter I — How three persons in this history came by their names
  3. 3Chapter II — Jacques shows the advantage of being led captive by a…
  4. 4Chapter III — An heiress who wishes to become a man
  5. 5Chapter IV — A poor young man, and a rich young girl
  6. 6Chapter V — In which Sir Asinus makes as ignominious retreat
  7. 7Chapter VI — How Sir Asinus staked his garters against a pistole, a…
  8. 8Chapter VII — Jacques bestows his paternal advice upon a schoolgirl
  9. 9Chapter VIII — How Sir Asinus invented a new order of philosophers,…
  10. 10Chapter IX — The luck of Jacques
  11. 11Chapter X — Mowbray opens his heart to his new friend
  12. 12Chapter XI — How Hoffland found that he had left his key behind
  13. 13Chapter XII — How Hoffland caught a tartar in the person of miss lu…
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Hoffland makes his will
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Hostile correspondence
  16. 16Chapter XV — Sentiments of a disappointed lover on the subject of w…
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Advance of the enemy upon Sir Asinus
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Corydon goes a-courting
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Going to Roseland
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Hoffland exerts himself to amuse the company
  21. 21Chapter XX — At Roseland, in the evening
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Disgraceful conduct of Sir Asinus
  23. 23Chapter XXII — How Hoffland preferred a glove to a dozen pistoles
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — How Sir Asinus fished for swallows, and what he caught
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Hoffland is whisked away in a chariot
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Sir Asinus goes to the ball
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Ernest and Philippa
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The last chance of Jacques
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Sir Asinus intends for Europe
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — The May festival
  31. 31Chapter XXX — Illustrations

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