Chapter I

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Family Pictures, with select Views of the Estate, fenced with
distant Prospects 1

CHAP. II.

"No man can tether time or tide,
The hour approaches Tam maun ride."

And he takes one side step and two front ones on the road to
glory 11

CHAP. III.

An old one takes to his heels, leaving a young one in
arms.--The dessert does not always follow the last coarse
of--a goose.--Goes to the war, and ends in love 30

CHAP. IV.

Shewing how generals may descend upon particulars with a
cat-o'-nine tails. Some extra Tales added, Historical,
Comical, and Warlike all 44

CHAP. V.

The paying of a French compliment, which will be repaid in
a future chapter. A fierce attack upon hairs. A niece
compliment, and lessons gratis to untaught sword-bearers 79

CHAP. VI.

Reaping a Horse with a halter. Reaping golden Opinions out of
a Dung-Hill, and reaping a good Story or two out of the next
Room. A Dog-Hunt and Sheep's Heads prepared at the Expense of
a Dollar each, and a Scotchman's Nose 94

CHAP. VII.

"Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of war." 130

CHAP. VII.

The persecution of the guardian of two angels. A Caçadore and
his mounted followers. A chief of hussars in his trousers.
A chief of rifles in his glory, and a sub of ditto with two
screws in the neck 155

CHAP. VIII.

National Characters. Adventures of a pair of leather Breeches.
Ditto of a pound of Beef. Shewing what the French General did
not do, and a Prayer which he did not pray; with a few random
Shots. 176

CHAP. IX.

A bishop's gathering.--Volunteers for a soldier's love, with
a portrait of the lover.--Burning a bivouac. Old invented
thrashing machines and baking concerns.--A flying Padre
taking a shot flying 219

CHAP. X.

Shewing how a volunteer may not be what Doctor Johnson made
him.--A mayor's nest.--Cupping.--The Author's reasons for
punishing the world with a book.--And some volunteers of the
right sort 236

CHAP. XI.

Very short, with a few anecdotes still shorter; but the
principal actors thought the scene long enough 265

CHAP. XII.

Shewing rough visitors receiving a rough reception. Some living
and moving specimens thereof. Tailors not such fractions of
humanity as is generally believed. Gentle visitors receiving
a gentle reception, which ends by shewing that two shakes
joined together sound more melodiously on the heart-strings
than two hands which shake of their own accord 277

CHAP. XIII.

Specimens of target-practice, in which markers may become
marked men.--A grave anecdote, shewing "how some men have
honours thrust upon them." A line drawn between man and
beast.--Lines drawn between regiments, and shewing how
credit may not be gained by losing what they are made
of.--Aristocratic.--Dedicatic.--Dissertation on advanced
guards, and desertion of knapsacks, shewing that "the greater
haste the worse speed" 299

RANDOM SHOTS

FROM

A RIFLEMAN.