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The Last of the Foresters

by John Esten Cooke

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3Chapter I — At Apple Orchard
  4. 4Chapter II — Verty and His Companions
  5. 5Chapter III — Introduces a Legal Porcupine
  6. 6Chapter IV — How Verty Thought, and Played, and Dreamed
  7. 7Chapter V — Winchester
  8. 8Chapter VI — In Which Mr. Roundjacket Flourishes His Ruler
  9. 9Chapter VII — In Which Roundjacket Reads His Great Poem
  10. 10Chapter VIII — How Verty Shot a White Pigeon
  11. 11Chapter IX — Hawking Without a Hawk
  12. 12Chapter X — Verty Makes the Acquaintance of Mr. Jinks
  13. 13Chapter XI — How Verty Discovered in Himself a Great Fondness for A…
  14. 14Chapter XII — How Strephon Talked With Chloe in an Arbor
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Verty Expresses a Desire to Imitate Mr. Jinks
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The Thirteenth of October
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Pedlar and the Necklace
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Mr. Roundjacket Makes Himself Agreeable
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Mr. Jinks at Home
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — How Miss Lavinia Developed Her Theories Upon Matrimony
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Only a Few Tears
  22. 22Chapter XX — How Miss Fanny Slammed the Door in Verty’s Face
  23. 23Chapter XXI — In Which Redbud Suppresses Her Feelings and Behaves W…
  24. 24Chapter XXII — How Miss Sallianna Fell in Love With Verty
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — The Result
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Of the Effect of Verty’s Violin-Playing Upon Mr. Rus…
  27. 27Chapter XXV — A Young Gentleman, Just From William and Mary College
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — The Necklace
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Philosophical
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Consequences of Miss Sallianna’s Passion for Verty
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Interchange of Compliments
  32. 32Chapter XXX — What Occurred at Bousch’s Tavern
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — Mr. Jinks on Horse-Back, Going to Take Revenge
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — An Old Bible
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Fanny’s Views Upon Heraldry
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — How Miss Sallianna Alluded to Vipers, and Fell Into…
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — How Miss Fanny Made Merry With the Passion of Mr. Verty
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — Ralph Makes Love to Miss Sallianna
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Verty States His Private Opinion of Miss Sallianna
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — How Longears Showed His Gallantry in Fanny’s Service
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — Up the Hill-Side and Under the Chestnuts
  42. 42Chapter XL — Under the Greenwood Tree
  43. 43Chapter XLI — Use of Coats in a Storm
  44. 44Chapter XLII — How Mr. Jinks Requested Ralph to Hold Him
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — Verty’s Heart Goes Away in a Chariot
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — In Which the History Returns to Apple Orchard
  47. 47Chapter XLV — Hours in the October Woods
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — The Happy Autumn Fields
  49. 49Chapter XLVII — Days That Are No More
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII — The Harvest Moon
  51. 51Chapter XLIX — Back to Winchester, Where Editorial Iniquity Is Disc…
  52. 52Chapter L — How Verty Discovered a Portrait, and What Ensued
  53. 53Chapter LI — A Child and a Logician
  54. 54Chapter LII — How Mr. Jinks Determined to Spare Verty
  55. 55Chapter LIII — Projects of Revenge, Involving Historical Details
  56. 56Chapter LIV — Exploits of Fodder
  57. 57Chapter LV — Woman Traps Laid by Mr. Jinks
  58. 58Chapter LVI — Takes Verty to Mr. Roundjacket
  59. 59Chapter LVII — Contains an Extraordinary Disclosure
  60. 60Chapter LVIII — How Mr. Rushton Proved That All Men Were Selfish, H…
  61. 61Chapter LIX — The Portrait Smiles
  62. 62Chapter LX — The Lodge in the Hills
  63. 63Chapter LXI — Mistress O’Calligan’s Wooers
  64. 64Chapter LXII — Verty Muses
  65. 65Chapter LXIII — How Verty and Miss Lavinia Ran A-Tilt at Each Other…
  66. 66Chapter LXIV — The Rose of Glengary
  67. 67Chapter LXV — Providence
  68. 68Chapter LXVI — The Hour and the Necklace
  69. 69Chapter LXVII — How St. Patrick Encountered St. Michael, and What E…
  70. 70Chapter LXVIII — The End of the Chain
  71. 71Chapter LXIX — Conclusion

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