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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Preface

An Imperial Banquet. A Philosophical Discussion. The Mysterious Stranger. Britons Never shall be Slaves

Nimrod: a Mighty Hunter before the Lord

The Financiers

The Placard

The Clock-case

It is not My Crime

The Exterminating Machines

The Cap on the Stairs

Who is to Pay?

The Long Hill

Hands and Brains

The Letting of the Room

Penal Servitude and Death

Three Children. The Wages of Intelligence

The Undeserving Persons and the Upper and Nether Millstones

True Freedom

The Rev. John Starr

The Lodger

The Filling of the Tank

The Forty Thieves. The Battle: Brigands Versus Bandits

The Reign of Terror. The Great Money Trick

The Phrenologist

The 'Open-air'

Ruth

The Oblong

The Slaughter

The March of the Imperialists

The Week before Christmas

The Pandorama

The Brigands hold a Council of War

The Deserter

The Veteran

The Soldier's Children

The Beginning of the End

Facing the 'Problem'

The OBS

A Brilliant Epigram

The Brigands' Cave

The Brigands at Work

Vive la System!

The Easter Offering. The Beano Meeting

June

The Good Old Summer-time

The Beano

The Great Oration

The 'Sixty-five'

The Ghouls

The Wise men of the East

The Undesired

Sundered

The Widow's Son

'It's a Far, Far Better Thing that I do, than I have Ever Done'

Barrington Finds a Situation

The End

Appendix: Mugsborough

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