Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2)
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Chapter 1 THE PHILANTHROPIST'S FAMILY.
Chapter 2 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WORTHY ABEL SNIPE.
Chapter 3 IN WHICH THE YOUNG MAN JONATHAN ARGUES SEVERAL CASES OF CONSCIENCE, WHICH ARE RECOMMENDED TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE YEARLY MEETING.
Chapter 4 CONTAINING LITTLE OR NOTHING SAVE APOSTROPHES, EXHORTATIONS, AND QUARRELS.
Chapter 5 WHICH IS SHORT AND MORAL, AND CAN THEREFORE BE SKIPPED.
Chapter 6 AN INCONVENIENCE OF BEING IN ANOTHER MAN'S BODY, WHEN CALLED UPON TO GIVE EVIDENCE AS TO ONE'S OWN EXIT.
Chapter 7 THE SORROWS OF A PHILANTHROPIST.
Chapter 8 THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
Chapter 9 CONTAINING A DIFFICULTY.
Chapter 10 IN WHAT MANNER MR. ZACHARIAH LONGSTRAW DETERMINED TO IMPROVE HIS FORTUNE.
Chapter 11 IN WHICH A CATASTROPHE BEGINS.
Chapter 12 IN WHICH THE CATASTROPHE IS CONTINUED.
Chapter 13 THE DéNOUEMENT OF THE DRAMA.
Chapter 14 A REMARK, IN WHICH THE AUTHOR APPEARS AS A POLITICIAN, AND ABUSES BOTH PARTIES.
Chapter 15 AN UNCOMMON ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE AUTHOR.
Chapter 16 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE TAKES A JOURNEY, AND DISCOVERS THE SECRET OBJECT OF HIS CAPTORS.
Chapter 17 CONTAINING OTHER SECRETS, BUT NOT SO IMPORTANT.
Chapter 18 IN WHICH THE AUTHOR APPROACHES A CLIMAX IN HIS ADVENTURES.
Chapter 19 CONTAINING A SPECIMEN OF ELOQUENCE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DANGERS OF LYNCHDOM.
Chapter 20 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE FINDS EVERY THING BLACK ABOUT HIM.
Chapter 21 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS INTRODUCED TO HIS MASTER.
Chapter 22 AN OLD WOMAN'S CURE FOR A DISEASE EXTREMELY PREVALENT BOTH IN THE COLOURED AND UNCOLOURED CREATION.
Chapter 23 SOME ACCOUNT OF RIDGEWOOD HILL, AND THE AUTHOR'S OCCUPATIONS.
Chapter 24 IN WHICH THE AUTHOR FURTHER DESCRIBES HIS SITUATION, AND PHILOSOPHIZES ON THE STATE OF SLAVERY.
Chapter 25 RECOLLECTIONS OF SLAVERY.
Chapter 26 A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE POTOMAC, WITH THE HUMOURS OF AN AFRICAN IMPROVISATORE.
Chapter 27 THE AUTHOR DESCENDS AMONG THE SLAVES, AND SUDDENLY BECOMES A MAN OF FIGURE, AND AN INTERPRETER OF NEW DOCTRINES.
Chapter 28 WHAT IT WAS THE NEGROES HAD DISCOVERED AMONG THE SCANTLING.
Chapter 29 THE EFFECT OF THE PAMPHLET ON ITS READER AND HEARERS.
Chapter 30 THE HATCHING OF A CONSPIRACY.
Chapter 31 HOW THE SPOILS OF VICTORY WERE INTENDED TO BE DIVIDED.
Chapter 32 THE ATTACK OF THE INSURGENTS UPON THE MANSION AT RIDGEWOOD HILL.
Chapter 33 THE TRAGICAL OCCURRENCES THAT FOLLOWED.
Chapter 34 THE RESULTS OF THE INSURRECTION, WITH A TRULY STRANGE AND FATAL CATASTROPHE THAT BEFELL THE AUTHOR.
Chapter 35 CONTAINING AN INKLING OF THE LIFE AND HABITS OF MR. ARTHUR MEGRIM.
Chapter 36 THE HAPPY CONDITION IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS AT LAST PLACED.
Chapter 37 THE EMPLOYMENTS OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE.
Chapter 38 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE INCONVENIENCES OF HAVING A DIGESTIVE APPARATUS.
Chapter 39 THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL SURPRISING TRANSFORMATIONS.
Chapter 40 AN ACCOUNT OF THE WOES OF AN EMPEROR OF FRANCE, WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE APPEARED IN HISTORY.
Chapter 41 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS CONVINCED THAT ALL IS NOT GOLD WHICH GLISTENS.
Chapter 42 IN WHICH THE AUTHOR STUMBLES UPON AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
Chapter 43 CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES OF THE GERMAN DOCTOR.
Chapter 44 SHEPPARD LEE FLIES FROM THE GERMAN DOCTOR, AND FINDS HIMSELF AGAIN IN NEW-JERSEY.
Chapter 45 WHAT HAD HAPPENED AT WATERMELON HILL DURING THE AUTHOR'S ABSENCE.
Chapter 46 CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF A SINGULAR DEBATE BETWIXT THE AUTHOR AND HIS BROTHER, WITH A PHILOSOPHIC DEFENCE OF THE AUTHOR'S CREDIBILITY.
Chapter 47 BEING THE LAST CHAPTER OF ALL.
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Chapter 41 IN WHICH SHEPPARD LEE IS CONVINCED THAT ALL IS NOT GOLD WHICH GLISTENS.

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This conversion of mine to their own opinion-or, if the reader will so have it, my return to rationality-had a favourable effect on my doctors. They removed (very circumspectly indeed) the strait jacket from my arms; and then, seeing I made no attempt to tear them to pieces, but was, on the contrary, very quiet and submissive, and that, in

             
            

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