The Gilded Age, Part 1. - Mark Twain; Charles Dudley Warner

[CHAPTER I.]
Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri
[CHAPTER II. ]
He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay
[CHAPTER III ]
Uncle Daniel's Apparition and PrayeR
[CHAPTER IV ]
The Steamboat Explosion
[CHAPTER V]
Adoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by Colonel Beriah Sellers
[CHAPTER VI]
Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land
[CHAPTER VII]
Colonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism
[CHAPTER VIII]
Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins
[CHAPTER IX]
Death of Judge Hawkins

ILLUSTRATIONS

[FRONTPIECE COL. SELLERS FEEDING HIS FAMILY ON EXPECTATIONS]
1. [CONTEMPLATION]
2. [THE SQUIRE's HOUSE]
S. [THE U. S. MAIL]
4. [OBEDSTOWN MALES]
5. [HURRYING]
6. [THE SQUIRE'S KITCHEN]
7. ["FOR GOODNESS SAKE SI"]
8. [THE LAST COG WHEEL]
9. [GONE UP]
10. [TAIL PIECE]
11. [THE ORPHANS LAST GIFT]
12. [MRS HAWKINS AND CLAY AT THE GRAVE OF HIS MOTHER]
13. ["CHILDREN, DAR'S SUMFIN' A COMIN]
14. ["HEAH I IS, LORD, HEAH I IS!"]
15. [TAIL PIECE]
16. [NOT ENCOURAGED]
17. [SHE'S GAINING]
18. ["BY THE MARK TWAIN!"]
19. [FAST TOGETHER]
20. [ONE OF THE VICTIMS]
21. [THE PROCESSION—FORWARD MARCH!]
22. [THE HAPPY WIFE]
23. [LAURA]
24. [READY TO SELL]
25. [STOCK RISING]
26. [A FAMILY COUNCIL]
27. [TAIL PIECE]
28. [ATTEMPTED CORNER IN SPECIE]
29. [A BRILLIANT IDEA]
30. [BIG THINGS SHOWN UP]
31. [COL. SELLERS BLOWING BUBBLES FOR WASHINGTON]
32. [GEN BOSWELL'S OFFICE]
33. [TAIL PIECE]
34. [CONSOLATION]
35. [THE DYING FATHER]
36. [TAIL PIECE]

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS