Preface 11
1.An Imperial Banquet.A Philosophical Discussion.The Mysterious Stranger.Britons Never shall beSlaves 13
2.Nimrod : a Mighty Hunter before the Lord 31
3.The Financiers 49
4.The Placard 67
5.The Clock-case 72
6.It is not My Crime 79
7.The Exterminating Machines 97
8.The Cap on the Stairs 1o 9
9.Who is to Pay? 116
10.The Long Hill 119
11.Hands and Brains 126
12.The Letting of the Room 132
13.Penal Servitude and Death 135
14.Three Children.The Wages of Intelligence 143
15.The Undeserving Persons and the Upper and Nether Millstones 148
16.True Freedom 167
17.The Rev.John Starr 176
18.The Lodger 189
19.The Filling of the Tank 194
20.The Forty Thieves.The Battle: Brigands versus Bandits 207
21.The Reign of Terror.The Great Money Trick 216
22.The Phrenologist 231
23.The ‘Open-air' 242
24.Ruth 252
25.The Oblong 268
26.The Slaughter 302
27.The March of the Imperialists 309
28.The Week before Christmas 313
29.The Pandorama 322
30.The Brigands hold a Council of War 330
31.The Deserter 336
32.The Veteran 338
33.The Soldier's Children 340
34.The Beginning of the End 347
35.Facing the “Problem” 359
36.The O.B.S. 365
37.A Brilliant Epigram 371
38.The Brigands' Cave 381
39.The Brigands at Work 386
40.Vive la System! 394
41.The Easter Offering.The Beano Meeting 404
42.June 414
43.The Good Old Summer-time 421
44.The Beano 468
45.The Great Oration 498
46.The ‘Sixty-five’ 543
47.The Ghouls 551
48.The Wise Men of the East 567
49.The Undesired 592
50.Sundered 596
51.The Widow's Son 603
52.“It's a Far, Far Better Thing that I do, than I have Ever Done” 610
53.Barrington Finds a Situation 615
54.The End 620
Appendix.Mugsborough 631