Nothing to Eat

Nothing to Eat

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, politician, judge and author (1796-1865)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- MOTTO

-03- DEDICATION

-04- THE ARGUMENT

-05- THE PROOF THE QUEEN OF FASHION

-06- THE OBJECT AIMED AT

-07- WHAT ANOTHER POET DID

-08- HOW THE AUTHOR SOMETIMES DINES

-09- MERDLE THE BANKER

-10- PLACES WHERE MORTALS DINE

-11- THINGS THAT MORTALS EAT THERE

-12- THE INVITATION

-13- THE MERDLE ORIGIN

-14- FOR BREAD WHEREWITHAL JACK'S BELLY TO FILL

-15- MRS MERDLE AT HOME

-16- MRS MERDLE GOES TO MARKET

-17- THE DINNER BELL RINGS

-18- THE DINNER TABLE TALK

-19- MRS MERDLE DOUBTS PARADISE'S UNEATING PLEASURE

-20- MRS MERDLE DISCOURSETH OF THINGS EARTHLY

-21- MRS MERDLE DISCOURSETH OF THINGS EATABLE

-22- MRS MERDLE ORDERETH THE SECOND COURSE

-23- MRS MERDLE DISCOURSETH OF HYGIENE AND FISH SAUCE

-24- MRS MERDLE DESCRIBETH HER DOCTOR

-25- MRS MERDLE DISCOURSETH AGAIN ON DINNER

-26- MRS MERDLE ACCEPTETH OF A SLIGHT DINNER

-27- MRS MERDLE DISCOURSETH OF WISHES AND HER SUFFERINGS

-28- MRS MERDLE DISCOURSETH OF PUDDING

-29- MRS MERDLE DISCOURSETH OF THE NECESSITY OF GOOD WINE

-30- MRS MERDLE SUGGESTETH THAT DINNER BEING FINISHED

-31- MRS MERDLE, HAVING NIBBLED A LITTLE FOR TWO HOURS AT DINNER

-32- THE POET MORALIZETH HE DISCOURSETH TO THOSE WHO GORGE AND COMPLAIN

-33- HE DISCOURSETH OF THE WHEREFORE OF BACHELORISM

-34- HE DISCOURSETH OF WHAT SOME MORTALS LIVE FOR

-35- HE IMPLORETH MERCY UPON THOSE CONDEMNED WITH FASHIONABLE FOLLY TO MARRY

-36- HE IMPLORETH MERRY FOR OTHER UNFORTUNATE BEINGS

-37- HE DISCOURSETH OF A COMMON PRAYER

-38- HE DISCOURSETH OF TROUBLE AND SORROW

-39- HE MORALIZETH UPON WHAT A DAY MAY BRING FORTH