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Chapter I. In which are narrated a few particulars of my birthplace and parentage.
Chapter II. In which, by the narration of the story of my uncle Benjamin’s great misfortune, some light is thrown on the blood-selling mystery.
Chapter III. In which the reader is made acquainted with an occurrence which happened on a memorable Friday.
Chapter IV. In which work is cut out for the undertaker, and my father refuses to be comforted.
Chapter V. In which my father endeavours to explain to me the meaning of the words “death” and “never.”
Chapter VI. In which, for the first time in my life, I see the inside of a church, also a pit-hole in the yard by the side of it.
Chapter VII. Which chiefly concerns the woman whom cruel fate decreed to be my stepmother.
Chapter VIII. In which Mrs. Burke courts my father.
Chapter IX. My new mother. I derive a valuable hint from a conversation between my father and his pal.
Chapter X. Descriptive of my nocturnal troubles with Polly. I am provoked to assault my stepmother, and run away from home.
Chapter XI. In which I spend an afternoon in Smithfield market, and have a narrow escape from falling once more into the clutches of Mrs. Burke.
Chapter XII. In which I endeavour to qualify myself for “barking,” and pick up some new acquaintances.
Chapter XIII. The Dark Arches and the inhabitants there, I witness a lark, as performed by them. My first night’s lodging in a van.
Chapter XIV. In which I enter into partnership with Messrs. Ripston and Mouldy, and agree to do as they do.
Chapter XV. In which the true nature of the business of our firm is made apparent, and I become a thief for the sake of a pen’orth of hot pudding.
Chapter XVI. In which Mouldy talks legally, and explains for my comfort the difference between “thieving” and “taking.”
Chapter XVII. Which touches on sundry of my adventures as a market prowler, and leads up to a certain Sunday night when I fall ill, and give promise of growing worse.
Chapter XVIII. In which I bid farewell to my partners and the Dark Arches, and am conveyed to the workhouse to be cured of “the fever.”
Chapter XIX. In which, with the assistance of Doctor Flinders, I manage to cheat the worms. I quit the workhouse with much less ceremony than I entered it.
Chapter XX. In which, driven by stress of weather, I once more make sail for Turnmill Street—breakers ahead.
Chapter XXI. In which, by a miracle, I escape my father’s just vengeance, incurred by bringing disgrace on “his and his’n.”
Chapter XXII. In which I make the acquaintance of two jews, and am scandalously fleeced by them.
Chapter XXIII. In which I discover the extent of the swindle put on me by Messrs. Barney and Ike. My last appearance at Covent Garden. I become a public singer, and my pipes are put out by an old friend.
Chapter XXIV. In which I am beholden to an old friend for sumptuous fare, and flannel and frilled linen. There is a prospect of my becoming a chimney-sweep.
Chapter XXV. In which I am introduced to Mr. Belcher; likewise to Mrs. Belcher; likewise to Sam, and his friend “Spider.”
Chapter XXVI. In which I make friends with the “Spider,” and engage with him in a queer sort of conversation, that may or may not lead to important results.
Chapter XXVII. In which Sam enlightens me as to the secret of the mysterious soot.
Chapter XXVIII. In which I started on the wished-for journey. I overhear a curious conversation concerning the “quick” and the “quiet.” I am made wise as to the import of the said conversation.
Chapter XXIX. In which there occurs a scene that beats hollow everything I ever witnessed at the “gaff” in Shoreditch.
Chapter XXX. In which one jail-bird escapes, and the other one is securely caged. I flee from the law and its officers to avoid the evil consequences of “chirping.”
Chapter XXXI. In which I break new and dangerous ground, and find myself the owner of immense wealth.
Chapter XXXII. In which I make the acquaintance of Long George Hopkins, who kindly offers to take me as an in-door apprentice, and instruct me in the mysteries of his craft.
Chapter XXXIII. In which I meet with an old friend in a new character, who gives me some startling information.
Chapter XXXIV. Which is devoted entirely to a description of the thrilling domestic drama entitled “The seven steps to Tyburn,” as performed at the “gaff” in Shoreditch.
Chapter XXXV. In which my determination to “change” is suddenly and unexpectedly balked, and I appear to be “going to the dogs” at a gallop.
Chapter XXXVI. In which, moved by spite, Mrs. Long George makes certain damaging revelations to me concerning my master.
Chapter XXXVII. The last chapter, and not a particularly pleasant chapter to write, inasmuch as it involves the story of my treachery towards Long George Hopkins. The fall of the curtain.
