FOREWORD

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I A NIGHT IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE

CHAPTER II OLD CUSTOMS

CHAPTER III A CORSICAN OUTRAGE

CHAPTER IV THE GREAT SILENCE

CHAPTER V THE SLAVE MARKET

CHAPTER VI BOYNE WATER AND HOLY WATER

CHAPTER VII A MAN OF TWELVE

CHAPTER VIII OLD MARY SORLEY

CHAPTER IX A GOOD TIME

CHAPTER X THE LEADING ROAD TO STRABANE

CHAPTER XI THE 'DERRY BOAT

CHAPTER XII THE WOMAN WHO WAS NOT ASHAMED

CHAPTER XIII THE MAN WITH THE DEVIL'S PRAYER BOOK

CHAPTER XIV PADDING IT

CHAPTER XV MOLESKIN JOE

CHAPTER XVI MOLESKIN JOE AS MY FATHER

CHAPTER XVII ON THE DEAD END

CHAPTER XVIII THE DRAINER

CHAPTER XIX A DEAD MAN'S SHOES

CHAPTER XX BOOKS

CHAPTER XXI A FISTIC ARGUMENT

CHAPTER XXII THE OPEN ROAD

CHAPTER XXIII THE COCK OF THE NORTH

CHAPTER XXIV MECCA

CHAPTER XXV THE MAN WHO THRASHED CARROTY DAN

CHAPTER XXVI A GREAT FIGHT

CHAPTER XXVII DE PROFUNDIS

CHAPTER XXVIII A LITTLE TRAGEDY

CHAPTER XXIX I WRITE FOR THE PAPERS

CHAPTER XXX WINTER

CHAPTER XXXI THE GREAT EXODUS

CHAPTER XXXII A NEW JOB

CHAPTER XXXIII A SWEETHEART OF MINE

CHAPTER XXXIV UNSKILLED LABOUR OF A NEW KIND

CHAPTER XXXV THE SEARCH

CHAPTER XXXVI THE END OF THE STORY

CHILDREN
OF
THE
DEAD
END

CHILDREN OF
THE DEAD END

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF AN IRISH NAVVY

BY
PATRICK
MACGILL

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
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