The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor
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Excerpt from The Paper Cap: A Story of Love and Labor The headdress of nationalities, and of public and private societies, has been in all ages a remarkable point of interest. Religion, Poetry, Politics, superstitions, and so forth, have all found expression by the way they dressed or covered their heads. Priests, soldiers, sailors, lawyers, traders, professions of all kinds are known by some peculiar covering of the head which they assume. None of these symbols are without interest, and most of them typify the character or intents of their wearers. The Paper Cap has added to its evident story...
Chapters (21)
- THE PAPER CAP
- A Story Of Love And Labor
- Frontispiece By Stockton Mulford
- D. Appleton And Company New York
- TO SAMUEL GOMPERS
- THE PAPER CAP
- CHAPTER I—THE SQUIRE OF ANNIS
- CHAPTER II—THE PROSPECT OF LONDON LIFE
- CHAPTER III—THE REALIZATION OF TROUBLE
- CHAPTER IV—LONDON AND AUNT JOSEPHA
- CHAPTER V—THE DISORDER CALLED LOVE
- CHAPTER VI—FASHION AND FAMINE
- CHAPTER VII—IN THE FOURTH WATCH
- CHAPTER VIII—LOVE’S TENDER PHANTASY
- CHAPTER IX—LOVERS QUARREL AND THE SQUIRE MAKES A SPEECH
- CHAPTER X—THE GREAT BILL PASSES
- CHAPTER XI—AUNT JOSEPHA INTERFERES
- CHAPTER XII—THE SQUIRE MAKES GOOD
- CHAPTER XIII—MARRIAGE BELLS AND GOOD-BY TO ANNIS
- CHAPTER XIV—A RECALL
- THE END
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