A Rough Shaking

Name: A Rough Shaking
Author: MacDonald, George, 1824-1905

MacDonald, George, 1824-1905

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Chapter I. How I came to know Clare SkymerSample
Chapter II. With his Parents
Chapter III. Without his Parents
Chapter IV. The New Family
Chapter V. His New Home
Chapter VI. What did draw out his first Smile
Chapter VII. Clare and his Brothers
Chapter VIII. Clare and his Human Brothers
Chapter IX. Clare the Defender
Chapter X. The Black Aunt
Chapter XI. Clare on the Farm
Chapter XII. Clare becomes a Guardian of the Poor
Chapter XIII. Clare the Vagabond
Chapter XIV. Their first Helper
Chapter XV. Their first Host
Chapter XVI. On the Tramp
Chapter XVII. The Baker’s Cart
Chapter XVIII. Beating the Town
Chapter XIX. The Blacksmith and his Forge
Chapter XX. Tommy reconnoitres
Chapter XXI. Tommy is Found and Found out
Chapter XXII. The Smith in a Rage
Chapter XXIII. Treasure Trove
Chapter XXIV. Justifiable Burglary
Chapter XXV. A New Quest
Chapter XXVI. A New Entrance
Chapter XXVII. The Baby has her Breakfast
Chapter XXVIII. Treachery
Chapter XXIX. The Baker
Chapter XXX. The Draper
Chapter XXXI. An Addition to the Family
Chapter XXXII. Shop and Baby
Chapter XXXIII. A Bad Penny
Chapter XXXIV. How Things went for a Time
Chapter XXXV. Clare disregards the Interests of his Employers
Chapter XXXVI. The Policeman
Chapter XXXVII. The Magistrate
Chapter XXXVIII. The Workhouse
Chapter XXXIX. Away
Chapter XL. Maly
Chapter XLI. The Caravans
Chapter XLII. Nimrod
Chapter XLIII. Across Country
Chapter XLIV. A Third Mother
Chapter XLV. The Menagerie
Chapter XLVI. The Angel of the Wild Beasts
Chapter XLVII. Glum Gunn
Chapter XLVIII. The Puma
Chapter XLIX. Glum Gunn’s Revenge
Chapter L. Clare seeks Help
Chapter LI. Clare a true Master
Chapter LII. Miss Tempest
Chapter LIII. The Gardener
Chapter LIV. The Kitchen
Chapter LV. The Wheel rests for a Time
Chapter LVI. Strategy
Chapter LVII. Ann Shotover
Chapter LVIII. Child-talk
Chapter LIX. Lovers’ Walks
Chapter LX. The Shoe-black
Chapter LXI. A Walk with Consequences
Chapter LXII. The Cage of the Puma
Chapter LXIII. The Dome of the Angels
Chapter LXIV. The Panther
Chapter LXV. At Home
Chapter LXVI. The End of Clare Skymer’s Boyhood