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CONTENTS. VOL. I. The Glenmutchkin Railway.-Vanderdecken's Message Home.-The Floating Beacon.-Colonna the Painter.-Napoleon.-A Legend of Gibraltar.-The Iron Shroud. VOL. II. Lazaro's Legacy.-A Story without a Tail.-Faustus and Queen Elizabeth.How I became a Yeoman.-Devereux Hall.-The Metempsychosis.-College Theatricals. VOL. III. A Reading Party in the Long Vacation.-Father Tom and the Pope.-La Petite Madelaine.-Bob Burke's Duel with Ensign Brady.-The Headsman: A Tale of Doom.-The Wearyful Woman. VOL. IV. How I stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs.-First and Last.-The Duke's Dilemma: A Chronicle of Niesenstein.-The Old Gentleman's Teetotum.-"Woe to us when we lose the Watery Wall."-My College Friends: Charles Russell, the Gentleman Commoner.-The Magic Lay of the One-Horse Chay. VOL. V. Adventures in Texas.-How we got Possession of the Tuileries.-Captain Paton's Lament.-The Village Doctor.-A Singular Letter from Southern Africa. VOL. VI. 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