1839

“Upon my word, friend,” said I, “you have almost made me
long to try what a robber I should make.” “There is a great
art in it, if you did,” quoth he. “Ah! but,” said I,
“there's a great deal in being hanged.”

Life and Actions of Guzman d'Alfarache.


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CONTENTS

[ ILLUSTRATIONS: ]

[ CHAPTER XIII. THE MAGDALENE. ]

[ CHAPTER XIV. THE FLASH KEN. ]

[ CHAPTER XV. THE ROBBERY IN WILLESDEN CHURCH. ]

[ CHAPTER XVI. JONATHAN WILD'S HOUSE IN THE OLD BAILEY. ]

[ CHAPTER XVII. THE NIGHT-CELLAR. ]

[ CHAPTER XVIII. HOW JACK SHEPPARD BROKE OUT OF THE CAGE AT WILLESDEN. ]

[ CHAPTER XIX. GOOD AND EVIL. ]

[ EPOCH THE THIRD, THE PRISON-BREAKER, 1724. ]

[ CHAPTER I. THE RETURN. ]

[ CHAPTER II. THE BURGLARY AT DOLLIS HILL. ]

[ CHAPTER III. JACK SHEPPARD'S QUARREL WITH JONATHAN WILD. ]

[ CHAPTER IV. JACK SHEPPARD'S ESCAPE FROM THE NEW PRISON. ]

[ CHAPTER V. THE DISGUISE. ]

[ CHAPTER VI. WINIFRED RECEIVES TWO PROPOSALS. ]

[ CHAPTER VII. JACK SHEPPARD WARNS THAMES DARRELL. ]

[ CHAPTER VIII. OLD BEDLAM. ]

[ CHAPTER IX. OLD NEWGATE. ]

[ CHAPTER X. HOW JACK SHEPPARD GOT OUT OF THE CONDEMNED HOLD. ]


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[ Frontispiece: Jack Shepard committing the Robbery in Willesden Church ]

[ Jack Sheppard gets drunk, and orders his Mother off ]

[ Jack Sheppard's escape from Willesden Cage ]

[ Mrs. Sheppard expostulating with her Son ]

[ Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr.Wood's Bedroom ]

[ Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess escaping from Clerkenwell Prison ]

[ Jack Sheppard escaping from the Condemned Hold in Newgate ]