Parson Adams Timeline and Summary

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• Parson Adams teaches young Joey Andrews about the important things in life: religion, Latin, and Aeschylus.
• Adams sets out for London to sell his sermons.
• Adams has the great good luck to run into his old pal, Joseph Andrews, at an inn.
• Adams plans to wait until Joseph recovers to continue on his journey to London.
• While he's hanging out at the inn, Adams tries to bargain with a bookseller to take his sermons. It's a no-go.
• Oops: Adams's wife packed him some extra shirts instead of those sermons. Guess he has no reason to go to London now.
• Adams decides to travel with Joseph on his way back to the Booby country estate.
• Too bad Adams forgot to pay for the horse. Adams is long gone before Joseph figures out he needs to come up with a way to pay.
• Waiting for Joseph at an inn, Adams falls into conversation with two dudes who have very different opinions about a gentleman whose house Adams passed on the road.
• Adams is just running into old pals right and left. Mrs. Slipslop passes by the inn and offers him a lift.
• Adams hears the scintillating story of Leonora while riding in Slipslop's coach.
• Adams and Joseph meet up again at the next inn. Unfortunately, Adams picks a fight with the wrong guy—the innkeeper.
• Adams and Joseph set out separately again, but Adams forgets that he has a horse at his disposal.
• While he's walking along, Adams encounters a gentleman out hunting. The two fall into conversation.
• Adams runs to the rescue of a lady in distress, while the gentleman runs in the other direction.
• The lady turns out to be Fanny. Adams tries to escort her home, but the villain attacking Fanny accuses the pair of being thieves.
• Fanny and Adams stand trial and nearly get thrown in jail, but a random stranger notices that Adams is the parson of Booby parish. Score.
• Adams facilitates the reunion of Joseph and Fanny. Aww.
• The group sets out again and runs into a band of sheep-stealers.
• While trying to run away, Adams takes a nasty tumble down a hill.
• At the bottom of the hill is Mr. Wilson's house. Wilson tells Adams and the others the story of his life.
• When the group journeys on, they run into a squire and his hunting dogs. The dogs rip off Adams's wig. Undignified, indeed.
• Adams and the group wolf down dinner at the squire's house.
• Adams is submerged into a pot of water. Totally embarrassing.
• The group hightails it out of the squire's house and makes its way to an inn.
• The squire's men overtake Adams and company and kidnap Fanny. Adams gets tied to a bedpost alongside Joseph.
• With Fanny recovered, the group finally heads back to the Booby country parish.
• Adams tries to defend Fanny and Joseph's impending nuptials, but Lady Booby is having none of it.
• Adams hears the news that his son, Dick (nicknamed Jacky, logically), has drowned. He goes totally berserk with grief.
• But the peddler delivers news that Adams's son is actually safe and sound. Random, but whew.
• Adams settles down in his country parish after Mr. Booby makes sure he's set for the rest of his life.