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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

Prefatory Letter

BOOK FIRST.

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CHAP. I. Jeremy enters the world with the proper
escort of phenomena,

CHAP. II. The importance of a name fully proved,
in the very teeth of Shakspeare and Juliet,

CHAP. III. The mystery of rearing children laid open
to the profane eyes of the uninitiated,

CHAP. IV. Jeremy enters school-and departs there-
from with undue celerity, first giving a striking
example of honesty by paying off all debts of
his contracting,

BOOK SECOND.

CHAP. I. An experiment in Hydrostaticks,

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CHAP. II. A much-ado-about-nothing,—with a dis-

quisition on horseflesh,

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CHAP. III. Portrait of Jeremy,

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CHAP. IV. Jeremy becomes a man-gets into hot
water-is scalded-and, in order to avoid such
accidents for the future, determines on a bold
step,

CHAP. V. Filial piety. The Blessings of Friend-
ship.-Jeremy leaves his father's house—and is
knocked down, and robbed by his companion.-
A friend in need,

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CHAP. XXVIII. The Serenade,

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CHAP. XXIX. The Declaration. A slip between
the cup and the lip,

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CHAP. XXX. The accident, that removes Jeremy
from the circle in which he was making himself

so happy, brings him once more into union with
his earliest, truest, yet least known friend,
CHAP. XXXI. A brief sketch of the character, etc.

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of Edward Clayton,

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CHAP. XXXII. The execution,

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CHAP. XXXIII. Jeremy learns

kind old uncle and his aunt. A still deeper ca-
lamity befals him,

the death of his

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JEREMY LEVIS

TO THE

READER.

INDULGENT READER:

BEFORE thou beginnest the history of a life which God hath seen fit to visit with much vicissitude, I would have thee lend thy most diligent attention to the following simple caution.—

Bear then well in mind, through the whole course of this work, that thou art not reading a book of adven tures, contrived merely for thy amusement and the author's profit—but the life of a being, neither above nor below the common line of mortality, whose misfortunes, brought upon him chiefly by his own folly, may prove to thee an instructive, while not uninteresting lesson. And be not offended that his most serious moods are often traversed by a strange vein o levity; for such, dear Reader, is the faithful transcript of his feelings. It would seem that some men cone into this world merely to weep, and others-merey to laugh.

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