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| Chapter XIII.—Demonstrations by “Sampson” Under a Table.—A Medium Who Is Handy with Her Feet.—Exposé of Another Operator in Dark Circles. | 102 | |
| Chapter XIV.—Spiritual Photographing.—Colorado Jewett and the Spirit-Photographs of General Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Stephen A. Douglas, Napoleon Bonaparte, Etc.—A Lady Of Distinction Seeks and Finds a Spiritual Photograph of Her Deceased Infant, and Her Dead Brother Who Was Yet Alive.—How It Was Done. | 109 | |
| Chapter XV.—Banner of Light.—Messages from the Dead.—Spiritual Civilities.—Spirit “Hollering.”—Hans von Vleet, The Female Dutchman.—Mrs. Conant’s “Circles.”—Paine’s Table-Tipping Humbug Exposed. | 119 | |
| Chapter XVI.—Spiritualist Humbugs Waking Up.—Foster Heard From.—S. B. Brittan Heard From.—The Boston Artists and Their Spiritual Portraits.—The Washington Medium and His Spiritual Hands.—The Davenport Brothers and the Sea-Captain’s Wheat-Flour.—The Davenport Brothers Roughly Shown Up by John Bull.—How a Shingle “Stumped” the Spirits. | 130 | |
| Chapter XVII.—The Davenport Brothers Shown Up Once More.—Dr. Newton at Chicago.—The Spiritualist Bogus Baby.—A Lady Brings Forth a Motive Force.—“Gum” Arabic.—Spiritualist Hebrew.—The Allen Boy.—Dr. Randall.—Portland Evening Courier.—The Fools Not All Dead Yet. | 145 | |
| III. Trade and Business Impositions. | ||
| Chapter XVIII.—Adulterations of Food.—Adulterations of Liquor.—The Colonel’s Whiskey.—The Humbugometer. | 152 | |
| Chapter XIX.—Adulterations in Drinks.—Riding Home on Your Wine-Barrel.—List of Things to Make Rum.—Things to Color It With.—Canal-Boat Hash.—English Adulteration Law.—Effects of Drugs Used.—How To Use Them.—Buying Liquors Under the Custom-House Lock.—A Homœopathic Dose. | 160 | |
| Chapter XX.—The Peter Funks and Their Functions.—The Rural Divine and the Watch.—Rise and Progress of Mock Auctions.—Their Decline and Fall. | 167 | |
| Chapter XXI.—Lottery Sharks.—Boult and His Brothers.—Kenneth, Kimball and Company.—A More Central Location Wanted for Business.—Two Seventeenth-Lies.—Strange Coincidence. | 175 | |
