JACOB FAITHFUL,

BY CAPT. MARRYAT,

AUTHOR OF "PETER SIMPLE," "THE KING'S OWN,"
"THE NAVAL OFFICER," &c.

SOLD ALSO BY AMYOT, RUE DE LA PAIX; TRUCHY, BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS;
THEOPHILE BARROIS, JUN., RUE RICHELIEU; HEIDELOFF AND CAMPE,
RUE VIVIENNE; AND BY ALL THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS ON

THE CONTINENT.

1837.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.'

My birth, parentage, and family pretensions-Unfortunately I prove to be a detri-

mental or younger son, which is remedied by a trifling accident-I hardly receive

the first elements of science from my father, when the elements conspire against

me,
and I am left an orphan.

CHAPTER II.

I fulfil the last injunctions of my father, and I am embarked upon a new element-

First bargain in my life very profitable, first parting with old friends very painful

-First introduction into civilized life very unsatisfactory to all parties.

CHAPTER III.

1 am sent to a charity school, where the boys do not consider charity as a part of

their education—The peculiarities of the master, and the magical effects of a

blow, of the nose-A disquisition upon the letter A, from which I find all my

previous learning thrown away

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CHAPTER IV.

Sleight of hand at the expense of my feet-Filling a man's pockets as great an of-

fence as picking them, and punished accordingly—A turn out, a turn up, and a

turn in-Early impressions removed, and redundancy of feeling corrected, by a

spell of the rattan

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CHAPTER V.

Mr. Knapps thinks to catch me napping, but the plot is discovered, and Barnaby

Bracegirdle is obliged to loosen his braces for the second time on my account---

Drawing caricatures ends in drawing blood-The usher is ushered out of the

school, and I am very nearly ushered into the next world, but instead of being

bound on so long a journey, I am bound "'prentice to a waterman."

CHAPTER VI.

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I am recommended to learn to swim, and I take the friendly advice-Heavy sus-

picion on board of the lighter, and a mystery, out of which Mrs. Radcliffe would

have made a romance.

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