A man’s character often give the lie to his tongue
     A lie has short legs
     Appearance of a professional pallbearer
     Architects should be driven and not followed
     Consequential or inconsequential irrespective of their size
     Deal with a fool according to his folly
     Impervious to hints, and would not take no for an answer
     Old enough to know better, and too old to be taught
     That abominable word “like”

THE CRISIS

By Winston Churchill

CONTENTS

BOOK I

Volume 1. 
I. Which Deals With Origins
II.  The Mole
III.  The Unattainable Simplicity
IV.  Black Cattle
V. The First Spark Passes
Vi.  Silas Whipple
VII.  Callers

Volume 2. 
VIII.  Bellegarde
IX.  A Quiet Sunday in Locust Street
X. The Little House
XI.  The Invitation
XII.  “Miss Jinny”
XIII.  The Party

BOOK II.

Volume 3. 
I. Raw Material. 
II.  Abraham Lincoln
III.  In Which Stephen Learns Something
IV.  The Question
V. The Crisis
Vi.  Glencoe

Volume 4. 
VII.  An Excursion
VIII.  The Colonel is Warned
IX.  Signs of the Times
X. Richter’s Scar,
XI.  How a Prince Came
XII.  Into Which a Potentate Comes
XIII.  At Mr. Brinsmade’s Gate
XIV.  The Breach becomes Too Wide
XV.  Mutterings

Volume 5. 
XVI.  The Guns of Sumter
XVII.  Camp Jackson
XVIII.  The Stone that is Rejected
XIX.  The Tenth of May. 
XX.  In the Arsenal
XXI.  The Stampede
XXII.  The Straining of Another Friendship
XXIII.  Of Clarence

BOOK III

Volume 6. 
I. Introducing a Capitalist
II.  News from Clarence
III.  The Scourge of War,
IV.  The List of Sixty
V. The Auction
Vi.  Eliphalet Plays his Trumps

Volume 7. 
VII.  With the Armies of the West
VIII.  A Strange Meeting
IX.  Bellegarde Once More
X. In Judge Whipple’s Office
XI.  Lead, Kindly Light

Volume 8. 
XII.  The Last Card
XIII.  From the Letters of Major Stephen Brice
XIV.  The Same, Continued
XV.  The Man of Sorrows
XVI.  Annapolis

THE CRISIS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

WHICH DEALS WITH ORIGINS

Faithfully to relate how Eliphalet Hopper came try St. Louis is to betray no secret.  Mr. Hopper is wont to tell the story now, when his daughter-in-law is not by; and sometimes he tells it in her presence, for he is a shameless and determined old party who denies the divine right of Boston, and has taken again to chewing tobacco.