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CHAPTER I
Which the reader will find very easy to read.
CHAPTER II
In which Mrs Easy, as usual, has her own way.
CHAPTER III
In which our hero has to wait the issue of an argument.
CHAPTER IV
In which the doctor prescribes going to school as a remedy for a cut finger.
CHAPTER V
Jack Easy is sent to a school at which there is no flogging.
CHAPTER VI
In which Jack makes essay of his father's sublime philosophy, and arrives very near to truth at last.
CHAPTER VII
In which Jack makes some very sage reflections, and comes to a very unwise decision.
CHAPTER VIII
In which Mr Easy has his first lesson as to zeal in his Majesty's Service.
CHAPTER IX
In which Mr Easy finds himself on the other side of the Bay of Biscay.
CHAPTER X
Showing how Jack transgresses against his own philosophy.
CHAPTER XI
In which our hero proves that all on board should equally sacrifice decency to duty.
CHAPTER XII
In which our hero prefers going down to going up; a choice, it is to be hoped, he will reverse upon a more important occasion.
CHAPTER XIII
In which our hero begins to act and think for himself.
CHAPTER XIV
In which our hero finds that disagreeable occurrences will take place on a cruise.
CHAPTER XV
In which mutiny, like fire, is quenched for want of fuel and no want of water.
CHAPTER XVI
In which Jack's cruise is ended, and he regains the Harpy.
CHAPTER XVII
In which our hero finds out that Trigonometry is not only necessary to Navigation, but may be required in settling affairs of honour.
CHAPTER XVIII
In which our hero sets off on another cruise, in which he is not blown off shore.
CHAPTER XIX
In which our hero follows his destiny and forms a tableau.
CHAPTER XX
A long story, which the reader must listen to, as well as our hero.
CHAPTER XXI
In which our hero is brought up all standing under a press of sail.
CHAPTER XXII
Our hero is sick with the service, but recovers with proper medicine. An argument, ending, as most do, in a blow up. Mesty lectures upon craniology.
CHAPTER XXIII
Jack goes on another cruise—Love and diplomacy—Jack proves himself as clever for three, and upsets all the arrangements of the high contracting powers.
CHAPTER XXIV
Our hero plays the very devil.
CHAPTER XXV
In which the old proverb is illustrated, "That you must not count your chickens before they are hatched."
CHAPTER XXVI
In which our hero becomes excessively unwell, and agrees to go through a course of medicine.
CHAPTER XXVII
In which Captain Wilson is repaid with interest for Jack's borrowing his name, proving that a good name is as good as a legacy.
CHAPTER XXVIII
"Philosophy made Easy," upon agrarian principles, the subject of some uneasiness to our hero—The first appearance, but not the last, of an important personage.
CHAPTER XXIX
In which our hero sees a little more service, and is better employed than in fighting Don Silvio.
CHAPTER XXX
Modern philanthropy, which, as usual, is the cause of much trouble and vexation.
CHAPTER XXXI
A regular set-to, in which the parties beaten are not knocked down, but rise higher and higher at each discomfiture—Nothing but the troops could have prevented them from going up to heaven.
CHAPTER XXXII
In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel what might be called midshipmite compunction.
CHAPTER XXXIII
In which Mesty should be called throughout Mephistopheles, for it abounds in black cloaks, disguises, daggers, and dark deeds.
CHAPTER XXXIV
Jack leaves the service, in which he had no business, and goes home to mind his own business.
CHAPTER XXXV
Mr Easy's wonderful invention fully explained by himself—much to the satisfaction of our hero, and it is to be presumed to that also of the reader.
CHAPTER XXXVI
In which Jack takes up the other side of the argument, and proves that he can argue as well on one side as the other.
CHAPTER XXXVII
In which our hero finds himself an orphan, and resolves to go to sea again without the smallest idea of equality.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
In which our hero, as usual, gets into the very middle of it.
CHAPTER XXXIX
A council of war, in which Jack decides that he will have one more cruise.
CHAPTER XL
In which there is another slight difference of opinion between those who should be friends.
CHAPTER XLI
Which winds up the nautical adventures of Mr Midshipman Easy.
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