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Title: The Youth of Jefferson
A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: November 1, 2007 [EBook #23283]

Language: English

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THE

YOUTH OF JEFFERSON

OR

A CHRONICLE OF COLLEGE SCRAPES

At Williamsburg, In Virginia, A.D. 1764

"Dulce est desipere in loco."

[Illustration: Publisher's arms.]

REDFIELD
110 AND 112 NASSAU STREET, NEW-YORK
1854

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

J. S. REDFIELD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New-York.

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TABLE OF CONTENT.

To the reader.

Chapter I.
How three persons in this history came by their names.

Chapter II.
Jacques shows the advantage of being led captive by a crook.

Chapter III.
An heiress who wishes to become a man.

Chapter IV.
A poor young man, and a rich young girl.

Chapter V.
In which Sir Asinus makes as ignominious retreat.

Chapter VI.
How Sir Asinus staked his garters against a pistole, and lost.

Chapter VII.
Jacques bestows his paternal advice upon a schoolgirl.

Chapter VIII.
How Sir Asinus invent