he accident--Train
in motion--The song finished--Johnny Cake's abstinence--First
experience in Gotham--Curious coincident--Wagstaff's note book--The
elephant seen--Members initiated 83

THE COLORED CAMP MEETING.

A dense smoke--Resolutions, preparations--The journey--Queer specimens
of Religion--Corn whisky--Effects of a hymn--Return to Gotham 132

FURTHER DISCOVERIES.

Order enforced--Boggs practises the art of self-defence--Successful fight
with the stove--Unsuccessful fight with the nigger--Quackenbush keeps late
hours--Deacon Pettingill on a bender--Is taken to a gambling-house--Loans
and loses ten dollars--Persecution of a corner grocery-man--A
gunpowder plot--More of the Dutchman's troubles--Cousin Betsy--Love,
pride and poverty--Mr. Buxton and the nigger--Shanghae coat--A gratuitous
baptism--Conflict between Buxton and the darkey 146

THE CLUB IN AN UPROAR.

South-ferry stages--Beginning of mishaps--The military--The Lager Bier
Invincibles--The fat gentleman--Old maid faints--Battle of Broadway--An
Irish funeral procession--One cent short--The journey's end--Overdale's
juggling--Johnny Cake drunk--An examination of Johnny's companion--How
he lived 188

JOHNNY CAKE'S FIRST SPREE.

Johnny's fall--He goes into the Bowery--An artistic barkeeper--The fly--A
Kansas official--Johnny Cake's delusion--A Chatham street auction--Johnny's
sensation--The gift enterprise--Dropper's dream and hopes of
success--The realization--Who didn't win 212

THE POLICE COURTS.

Visit to Essex Market--Peculiarities of Edward Bobber--Palmerston hook
the eel-catcher--The poet in Limbo--Warbles moralises--A German
witness--The oath--Disturbed by cats--Mysterious caterwaulings--The mystery
explained--Bad liquor--A Tombs lawyer--His retainer--An Irish
wake--An eccentric corpse--A free fight--The corpse in court--The case
concluded--Timothy Mulrooney--Michael's virtues--Timothy's cat--Mr.
Blobb--A knowing officer--Old Dog Tray--Blobb discharged--Quackenbush
confesses--Quackenbush forgiven 231

THE HAMLET NIGHT.

Attempt to swindle the darling public--The ghost--A small Hamlet and
large Queen--The ghost in an overcoat--The death scene--Overdale's
ideas--An unappreciative boy--Inconsistencies--Clockwork legs--A
complicated c