Israel Potter

Herman Melville · Chapter 2 of 32

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Israel Potter

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ISRAEL POTTER
CHAPTER I. — THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL.
CHAPTER II. — THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL.
CHAPTER III. — ISRAEL GOES TO THE WARS; AND REACHING BUNKER HILL IN TIME TO BE OF SERVICE THERE, SOON AFTER IS FORCED TO EXTEND HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE SEA INTO THE ENEMY’S LAND.
CHAPTER IV. — FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM.
CHAPTER V. — ISRAEL IN THE LION’S DEN.
CHAPTER VI. — ISRAEL MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF CERTAIN SECRET FRIENDS OF AMERICA, ONE OF THEM BEING THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE “DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY,” THESE DESPATCH HIM ON A SLY ERRAND ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
CHAPTER VII. — AFTER A CURIOUS ADVENTURE UPON THE PONT NEUF, ISRAEL ENTERS THE PRESENCE OF THE RENOWNED SAGE, DR. FRANKLIN, WHOM HE FINDS RIGHT LEARNEDLY AND MULTIFARIOUSLY EMPLOYED.
CHAPTER VIII. — WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.
CHAPTER IX. — ISRAEL IS INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF LODGING-HOUSES IN THE LATIN QUARTER.
CHAPTER X. — ANOTHER ADVENTURER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE.
CHAPTER XI. — PAUL JONES IN A REVERIE.
CHAPTER XII. — RECROSSING THE CHANNEL, ISRAEL RETURNS TO THE SQUIRE’S ABODE—HIS ADVENTURES THERE.
CHAPTER XIII. — HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.
CHAPTER XIV. — IN WHICH ISRAEL IS SAILOR UNDER TWO FLAGS, AND IN THREE SHIPS, AND ALL IN ONE NIGHT.
CHAPTER XV. — THEY SAIL AS FAR AS THE CRAG OF AILSA.
CHAPTER XVI. — THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.
CHAPTER XVII. — THEY CALL AT THE EARL OF SELKIRK’S, AND AFTERWARDS FIGHT THE SHIP-OF-WAR DRAKE.
CHAPTER XVIII. — THE EXPEDITION THAT SAILED FROM GROIX.
CHAPTER XIX. — THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.
CHAPTER XX. — THE SHUTTLE.
CHAPTER XXI. — SAMSON AMONG THE PHILISTINES.
CHAPTER XXII. — SOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL’S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE WILDERNESS.
CHAPTER XXIII. — ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
CHAPTER XXIV. — CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XXV. — IN THE CITY OF DIS.
CHAPTER XXVI. — FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
CHAPTER XXVII. — REQUIESCAT IN PACE.