CHAPTER ONE IN WHICH CERTAIN PERSONAGES OF THIS DELIGHTFUL HISTORY ARE INTRODUCED TO THE READER'S ACQUAINTANCE. CHAPTER TWO IN WHICH THE HERO OF THESE ADVENTURES MAKES HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ON THE STAGE OF ACTION. CHAPTER THREE WHICH THE READER, ON PERUSAL, MAY WISH WERE CHAPTER THE LAST. CHAPTER FOUR IN WHICH IT APPEARS THAT THE KNIGHT, WHEN HEARTILY SET IN FOR SLEEPING, WAS NOT EASILY DISTURBED. CHAPTER FIVE IN WHICH THIS RECAPITULATION DRAWS TO A CLOSE. CHAPTER SIX IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERCEIVE THAT IN SOME CASES MADNESS IS CATCHING. CHAPTER SEVEN IN WHICH THE KNIGHT RESUMES HIS IMPORTANCE. CHAPTER EIGHT WHICH IS WITHIN A HAIR'S-BREADTH OF PROVING HIGHLY INTERESTING. CHAPTER NINE WHICH MAY SERVE TO SHOW, THAT TRUE PATRIOTISM IS OF NO PARTY. CHAPTER TEN WHICH SHOWETH THAT HE WHO PLAYS AT BOWLS, WILL SOMETIMES MEET WITH RUBBERS. CHAPTER ELEVEN DESCRIPTION OF A MODERN MAGISTRATE. CHAPTER TWELVE WHICH SHOWS THERE ARE MORE WAYS TO KILL A DOG THAN HANGING. CHAPTER THIRTEEN IN WHICH OUR KNIGHT IS TANTALISED WITH A TRANSIENT GLIMPSE OF FELICITY. CHAPTER FOURTEEN WHICH SHOWS THAT A MAN CANNOT ALWAYS SIP, WHEN THE CUP IS AT HIS LIP. CHAPTER FIFTEEN EXHIBITING AN INTERVIEW, WHICH, IT IS TO BE HOPED, WILL INTEREST THE CURIOSITY OF THE READER. CHAPTER SIXTEEN WHICH, IT IS TO BE HOPED, THE READER WILL FIND AN AGREEABLE MEDLEY OF MIRTH AND MADNESS, SENSE AND ABSURDITY. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CONTAINING ADVENTURES OF CHIVALRY EQUALLY NEW AND SURPRISING. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN IN WHICH THE RAYS OF CHIVALRY SHINE WITH RENOVATED LUSTRE. CHAPTER NINETEEN CONTAINING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE GRIFFIN AND CRESCENT. CHAPTER TWENTY IN WHICH OUR HERO DESCENDS INTO THE MANSION OF THE DAMNED. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CONTAINING FURTHER ANECDOTES RELATING TO THE CHILDREN ON WRETCHEDNESS. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO IN WHICH CAPTAIN CROWE IS SUBLIMED INTO THE REGIONS ON ASTROLOGY. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE IN WHICH THE CLOUDS THAT COVER THE CATASTROPHE BEGIN TO DISPERSE. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE KNOT THAT PUZZLES HUMAN WISDOM, THE HAND OF FORTUNE SOMETIMES WILL UNTIE FAMILIAR AS HER GARTER. CHAPTER THE LAST WHICH, IT IS TO BE HOPED, WILL BE, ON MORE ACCOUNTS THAN ONE, AGREEABLE TO THE READER. ILLUSTRATIONS Titlepage Frontispiece Decent House of Entertainment THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM by Tobias Smollett CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO DOCTOR CHAPTER ONE SOME SAGE OBSERVATIONS THAT NATURALLY INTRODUCE OUR IMPORTANT HISTORY. CHAPTER TWO A SUPERFICIAL VIEW OF OUR HERO'S INFANCY. CHAPTER THREE HE IS INITIATED IN A MILITARY LIFE, AND HAS THE GOOD FORTUNE TO ACQUIRE A GENEROUS PATRON. CHAPTER FOUR HIS MOTHER'S PROWESS AND DEATH; TOGETHER WITH SOME INSTANCES OF HIS OWN SAGACITY. CHAPTER FIVE A BRIEF DETAIL OF HIS EDUCATION. CHAPTER SIX HE MEDITATES SCHEMES OF IMPORTANCE. CHAPTER SEVEN ENGAGES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A FEMALE ASSOCIATE, IN ORDER TO PUT HIS TALENTS IN ACTION.