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Title: The Last of the Foresters

Author: John Esten Cooke

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Language: English

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THE LAST OF THE FORESTERS:

OR,

HUMORS ON THE BORDER;

A STORY OF THE

Old Virginia Frontier.

BY

JOHN ESTEN COOKE

AUTHOR OF "THE VIRGINIA COMEDIANS," "LEATHER STALKING AND SILK,"
"ELLIE," "THE YOUTH OF JEFFERSON," INC.

1856

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I.--At Apple Orchard
II.--Verty and his Companions
III.--Introduces a Legal Porcupine
IV.--How Verty thought, and played, and dreamed
V.--Winchester
VI.--In which Mr. Roundjacket flourishes his ruler
VII.--In which Mr. Roundjacket reads his great Poem
VIII.--How Verty shot a White Pigeon
IX.--Hawking without a Hawk
X.--Verty makes the acquaintance of Mr. Jinks
XI.--How Verty discovered in himself a great fondness for Apples
XII.--How Strephon talked with Chloe in an Arbor
XIII.--Verty expresses a desire to imitate Mr. Jinks
XIV.--The Thirteenth of October
XV.--The Pedlar and the Necklace
XVI.--Mr. Roundjacket makes himself agreeable
XVII.--Mr. Jinks at Home
XVIII.--How Miss Lavinia developed her Theories on Matrimony
XIX.--Only a few tears
XX.--How Miss Fanny slammed the door in Verty's face
XXI.--In which Redbud suppresses her feelings, and behaves
with decorum
XXII.--How Miss Sallianna fell in love with Verty
XXIII.--The Result
XXIV.--Of the effect of Verty's violin-playing upon Mr. Rushton
XXV.--A Young Gentleman just from William and Mary College
XXVI.--The Necklace
XXVII.--Philosophical
XXVIII.--Consequences of Miss Sallianna's passion for Verty
XXIX.--Interchange of Compliments
XXX.--What occurred at Bousch's Tavern
XXXI.--Mr. Jinks on Horseback going to take Revenge
XXXII.--An old Bible
XXXIII.--Fanny's views upon Heraldry
XXXIV.--How Miss Sallianna alluded to vipers, and fell into hysterics