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The Entailed Hat

Or, Patty Cannon’s Times

George Alfred Townsend

Reading time
about 13 h
Length
180,099 words · 434 pages in print
Structure
47 chapters · 3 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Note
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter I — Two Hat Wearers
  4. Chapter II — Judge and Daughter
  5. Chapter III — The Foresters
  6. Chapter IV — Discovery of the Heirloom
  7. Chapter V — The Bog-Ore Tract
  8. Chapter VI — The Custises Ruined
  9. Chapter VII — Jack-O’-Lantern Iron
  10. Chapter VIII — The Hat Finds a Rack
  11. Chapter IX — Ha! Ha! The Wooing On’t
  12. Chapter X — Master in the Kitchen
  13. Chapter XI — Dying Pride
  14. Chapter XII — Princess Anne Folks
  15. Chapter XIII — Shadow of the Tile
  16. Chapter XIV — Meshach’s Home
  17. Chapter XV — The Kidnapper
  18. Chapter XVI — Bell-Crown Man
  19. Chapter XVII — Sabbath and Canoe
  20. Chapter XVIII — Under an Old Bonnet
  21. Chapter XIX — The Dusky Levels
  22. Chapter XX — Caste Without Tone
  23. Chapter XXI — Long Separations
  24. Chapter XXII — Nanticoke People
  25. Chapter XXIII — Twiford’s Island
  26. Chapter XXIV — Old Chimneys
  27. Chapter XXV — Patty Cannon’s
  28. Chapter XXVI — Van Dorn
  29. Chapter XXVII — Cannon’s Ferry
  30. Chapter XXVIII — Pacification
  31. Chapter XXIX — Beginning of the Raid
  32. Chapter XXX — Africa
  33. Chapter XXXI — Peach Blush
  34. Chapter XXXII — Garter-Snakes
  35. Chapter XXXIII — Honeymoon
  36. Chapter XXXIV — The Ordeal
  37. Chapter XXXV — Cowgill House
  38. Chapter XXXVI — Two Whigs
  39. Chapter XXXVII — Spirits of the Past
  40. Chapter XXXVIII — Virgie’s Flight
  41. Chapter XXXIX — VIRGIE’S FLIGHT (continued)
  42. Chapter XL — Hulda Beleaguered
  43. Chapter XLI — Aunt Patty’s Last Trick
  44. Chapter XLII — Beaks
  45. Chapter XLIII — Pleasure Drained
  46. Chapter XLIV — The Death of Patty Cannon
  47. Chapter XLV — The Judge Remarried
  48. Chapter XLVI — The Curse of the Hat
  49. Chapter XLVII — Failure and Restitution
  50. Footnotes

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George Alfred Townsend

1841–1914 · Victorian

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