Category: Humour

Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire

I. Ab initio II. Home, sweet Home! III. Work and Ideas IV. Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilating the History V. Reasons and Resolves VI. The Antagonism of Law and Necessity VII. Malthus and Man VIII. The Baby's First Translation

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

I. Ab initio II. Home, sweet Home! III. Work and Ideas IV. Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilating the History V. Reasons and Resolves VI. The Antagonism of Law and Ne...

2. Chapter 2

I. The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word II. The Protestant Detectoral Association III. The Sacrament of Baptism IV. Law on Behalf of Gospel V. Mag...

3. Chapter 3

I. Parochial Knots--to be untied without Prejudice II. A Board of Guardians III. “The World is my Parish” IV. Without Prejudice to any one but the Guardians V. An Ungodly Jungle...

4. Chapter 4

I. Moved on II. Club Ideas III. A thorough-paced Reformer--if not a Revolutionary IV. Very Broad Views V. Party Tactics--and Political Obstructions to Social Reform VI. Amateur...

5. Chapter 5

On the day when our hero was born, Mr. and Mrs. Ginx were living at Number Five, Rosemary Street, in the City of Westminster. The being then and there brought into the world was...

6. Chapter 6

The early days of his residence at the Home of the Sisters of Misery, in Winkle Street, was the Eden of Ginx's Baby's existence. Themselves innocent of a mother's experiences, t...

7. Chapter 7

The infant borne to the workhouse of St. Bartimeus was Ginx's Baby. When he had been placed on the floor of the matron's room, and examined by the master, that official turned t...

8. Chapter 8

Ginx's Baby's brothers and sisters would have nothing to say to him. Mrs. Ginx declared she could see in him no likeness to her own dear lost one; and her husband swore that the...

9. Chapter 9

A full-formed Horse will, in any market, bring from twenty to as high as two hundred Friedrichs d'or: such is his worth to the world. A full-formed Man is not only worth nothing...