The End of the World: A Love Story - Edward Eggleston

A DEDICATION.

It would hardly be in character for me to dedicate this book in good, stiff, old-fashioned tomb-stone style, but I could not have put in the background of scenery without being reminded of the two boys, inseparable as the Siamese twins, who gathered mussel-shells in the river marge, played hide-and-seek in the hollow sycamores, and led a happy life in the shadow of just such hills as those among which the events of this story took place. And all the more that the generous boy who was my playmate then is the generous man who has relieved me of many burdens while I wrote this story, do I feel impelled to dedicate it to GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON, a manly man and a brotherly brother.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER	[I.]	--[In Love with a Dutchman.]
CHAPTER	[II.]	--[An Explosion.]
CHAPTER	[III.]	--[A Farewell.]
CHAPTER	[IV.]	--[A Counter-Irritant.]
CHAPTER	[V.]	--[At the Castle.]
CHAPTER	[VI.]	--[The Backwoods Philosopher.]
CHAPTER	[VII.]	--[Within and Without.]
CHAPTER	[VIII.]	--[Figgers won't Lie.]
CHAPTER	[IX.]	--[The New Singing-Master.]
CHAPTER	[X.]	--[An Offer of Help.]
CHAPTER	[XI.]	--[The Coon-dog Argument.]
CHAPTER	[XII.]	--[Two Mistakes.]
CHAPTER	[XIII.]	--[The Spider Spins.]
CHAPTER	[XIV.]	--[The Spider's Web.]
CHAPTER	[XV.]	--[The Web Broken.]
CHAPTER	[XVI.]	--[Jonas Expounds the Subject.]
CHAPTER	[XVII.]	--[The Wrong Pew.]
CHAPTER	[XVIII.]	--[The Encounter.]
CHAPTER	[XIX.]	--[The Mother.]
CHAPTER	[XX.]	--[The Steam-Doctor.]
CHAPTER	[XXI.]	--[The Hawk in a New Part.]
CHAPTER	[XXII.]	--[Jonas Expresses his Opinion on Dutchmen.]
CHAPTER	[XXIII.]	--[Somethin' Ludikerous.]
CHAPTER	[XXIV.]	--[The Giant Great-heart.]
CHAPTER	[XXV.]	--[A Chapter of Betweens.]
CHAPTER	[XXVI.]	--[A Nice Little Game.]
CHAPTER	[XXVII.]	--[The Result of an Evening with Gentlemen.]
CHAPTER	[XXVIII.]	--[Waking up an Ugly Customer.]
CHAPTER	[XXIX.]	--[August and Norman.]
CHAPTER	[XXX.]	--[Aground.]
CHAPTER	[XXXI.]	--[Cynthy Ann's Sacrifice.]
CHAPTER	[XXXII.]	--[Julia's Enterprise.]
CHAPTER	[XXXIII.]	--[The Secret Stairway.]
CHAPTER	[XXXIV.]	--[The Interview.]
CHAPTER	[XXXV.]	--[Getting Ready for the End.]
CHAPTER	[XXXVI.]	--[The Sin of Sanctimony.]
CHAPTER	[XXXVII.]	--[The Deluge.]
CHAPTER	[XXXVIII.]	--[Scaring a Hawk.]
CHAPTER	[XXXIX.]	--[Jonas takes an Appeal.]
CHAPTER	[XL.]	--[Selling out.]
CHAPTER	[XLI.]	--[The Last Day and What Happened in it.]
CHAPTER	[XLII.]	--[For Ever and Ever.]
CHAPTER	[XLIII.]	--[The Midnight Alarm.]
CHAPTER	[XLIV.]	--[Squaring Accounts.]
CHAPTER	[XLV.]	--[New Plans.]
CHAPTER	[XLVI.]	--[The Shiveree.]