# Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

Author: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2329

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Autobiography+of+a+Pocket-Handkerchief+Cooper&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Certain moral philosophers, with a due disdain of the flimsy foundations of human pride, have shown that every man is equally descended from a million of ancestors, within a given number of generations; thereby demonstrating that no prince exists who does not participate in the blood of some beggar, or any beggar who does not share in the blood of princes. Although favored by a strictly vegetable descent myself, the laws of nature have not permitted me to escape from the influence of this common rule. The earliest accounts I possess of my progenitors represent them as a goodly growth of the Linum Usitatissimum, divided into a thousand cotemporaneous plants, singularly well conditioned, an...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/autobiography-of-a-pocket-handkerchief-2329/chapters/15/index.md)