[ Chapter i. — Showing what kind of a history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like. ]

[ Chapter ii. — Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards; and a great discovery made by Mrs Deborah Wilkins. ]

[ Chapter iii. — The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle. ]

[ Chapter iv. — Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history. ]

[ Chapter v. — Containing much matter to exercise the judgment and reflection of the reader. ]

[ Chapter vi. — The trial of Partridge, the schoolmaster, for incontinency; the evidence of his wife; a short reflection on the wisdom of our law; with other grave matters, which those will like best who understand ]

[ Chapter vii. — A short sketch of that felicity which prudent couples may extract from hatred: with a short apology for those people who overlook imperfections in their friends. ]

[ Chapter viii. — A receipt to regain the lost affections of a wife, which hath never been known to fail in the most desperate cases. ]

[ Chapter ix. — A proof of the infallibility of the foregoing receipt, in the lamentations of the widow; with other suitable decorations of death, such as physicians, &c., and an epitaph in the true stile. ]

[ BOOK III. — CONTAINING THE MOST MEMORABLE TRANSACTIONS WHICH PASSED IN THE FAMILY OF MR ALLWORTHY, FROM THE TIME WHEN TOMMY JONES ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN, TILL HE ATTAINED THE AGE OF NINETEEN. IN THIS BOOK ]