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A PROLOGUE?BEING A DISH OF VILLAGE CHAT
I. THE RECTOR'S NIGHT-WALK TO HIS CHURCH II. THE NAMELESS COFFIN III. MR. MERVYN IN HIS INN IV. THE FAIR-GREEN OF PALMERSTOWN V. HOW THE ROYAL ARTILLERY ENTERTAINED SOME OF THE NEIGHBOURS AT DINNER VI. IN WHICH THE MINSTRELSY PROCEEDS VII. SHOWING HOW TWO GENTLEMEN MAY MISUNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER, WITHOUT ENABLING THE COMPANY TO UNDERSTAND THEIR QUARREL VIII. RELATING HOW DOCTOR TOOLE AND CAPTAIN DEVEREUX WENT ON A MOONLIGHT ERRAND IX. HOW A SQUIRE WAS FOUND FOR THE KNIGHT OF THE RUEFUL COUNTENANCE X. THE DEAD SECRET, SHOWING HOW THE FIREWORKER PROVED TO PUDDOCK THAT NUTTER HAD SPIED OUT THE NAKEDNESS OF THE LAND XI. SOME TALK ABOUT THE HAUNTED HOUSEBEING, AS I SUPPOSE, ONLY OLD WOMAN'S TALES XII. SOME ODD FACTS ABOUT THE TILED HOUSEBEING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE GHOST OF A HAND XIII. IN WHICH THE RECTOR VISITS THE TILED HOUSE, AND DOCTOR TOOLE LOOKS AFTER THE BRASS CASTLE XIV. RELATING HOW PUDDOCK PURGED O'FLAHERTY'S HEADA CHAPTER WHICH, IT IS HOPED, NO GENTEEL PERSON WILL READ XV. ÆSCULAPIUS TO THE RESCUE |