Chapter 2

THE BREAKING OF DREAMS

I. Recording some Aspects of a Small Pilgrim's Progress 93

II. In which Our Hero Improves His Acquaintance with Many Things--Himself Included 104

III. Concerning that which, Thank God, Happens Almost Every Day 117

IV. Which Smells very Vilely of the Stable 128

V. In which Dickie is Introduced to a Little Dancer with Blush-roses in Her Hat 140

VI. Dealing with a Physician of the Body and a Physician of the Soul 149

VII. An Attempt to Make the Best of It 159

VIII. Telling, Incidentally, of a Broken-down Postboy and a Country Fair 169