Produced by Charles Keller GINX'S BABY His Birth and other Misfortunes A SATIRE By Edward Jenkins PREFACE. CRITIC.--I never read a more improbable story in my life. AUTHOR.--Notwithstanding, it may be true. CONTENTS. PART I. WHAT GINX DID WITH HIM. I. Ab initio II. Home, sweet Home! III. Work and Ideas IV. Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilating the History V. Reasons and Resolves VI. The Antagonism of Law and Necessity VII. Malthus and Man VIII. The Baby's First Translation PART II. WHAT CHARITY AND THE CHURCHES DID WITH HIM. I. The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word II. The Protestant Detectoral Association III. The Sacrament of Baptism IV. Law on Behalf of Gospel V. Magistrate's Law VI. Popery and Protestantism in the Queen's Bench VII. A Protestor, but not a Protestant VIII. “See how these Christians love one another” IX. Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences X. The Force--and a Specimen of its Weakness XI. The Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace XII. No Funds--no Faith, no Works XIII. In transitu PART III. WHAT THE PARISH DID WITH HIM. I. Parochial Knots--to be untied without Prejudice II. A Board of Guardians III. “The World is my Parish” IV. Without Prejudice to any one but the Guardians V. An Ungodly Jungle VI. Parochial Benevolence--and another Translation PART IV. WHAT THE CLUBS AND POLITICIANS DID WITH HIM. I. Moved on II. Club Ideas III. A thorough-paced Reformer--if not a Revolutionary IV. Very Broad Views V. Party Tactics--and Political Obstructions to Social Reform VI. Amateur Debating in a High Legislative Body PART V. WHAT GINX'S BABY DID WITH HIMSELF. The Last Chapter PART I. WHAT GINX DID WITH HIM. I.--Ab initio. The name of the father of Ginx's Baby was Ginx. By a not unexceptional coincidence, its mother was Mrs. Ginx. The gender of Ginx's Baby was masculine. On the day when our hero was born, Mr. and Mrs. Ginx were living at Number Five, Rosemary Street, in the City of Westminster. The being then and there brought into the world was not the only human entity to which the title of “Ginx's Baby” was or had been appropriate. Ginx had been married to Betsy Hicks at St. John's, Westminster, on the twenty-fifth day of October, 18--, as appears from the “marriage lines” retained by Betsy Ginx, and carefully collated by me with the original register. Our hero was their thirteenth child. Patient inquiry has enabled me to verify the following history of their propagations. On July the twenty-fifth, the year after their marriage, Mrs. Ginx was safely delivered of a girl. No announcement of this appeared in the newspapers.