Chapter I: Front Matter

The First Chain of Ponds--Shooting by Turns--Sheep
Washing--A Plunge and a Dive--A Roland for an Oliver

CHAPTER XIII.
A Jolly Time for the Deer--Hunting on the Water by
Daylight--Mud Lake--Funereal Scenery--A New way of
Taking Rabbits--The Negro and the Merino Buck--A
Collision

CHAPTER XIV.
A Deer Trapped--The Result of a Combat--A Question of Mental
Philosophy Discussed

CHAPTER XV.
Hooking up Trout--The Left Branch--The Rapids--A Fight with
a Buck

CHAPTER XVI.
Round Pond--The Pile Driver--A Theory for Spiritualists

CHAPTER XVII.
Little Tupper's Lake--A Spike Buck--A Thunder Storm in the
Forest--The Howl of the Wolf

CHAPTER XVIII.
An Exploring Voyage in an Alderswamp--A Beaver Dam--A Fair
Shot and a Miss--Drowning a Bear--an Unpleasant
Passenger

CHAPTER XIX.
Spalding's Bear Story--Climbing to avoid a Collision--An
Unexpected Meeting--A Race

CHAPTER XX.
The Chase on the Island--The Chase on the Lake--The
Bear--Gambling for Glory--Anecdote of Noah and the
Gentleman who offered to Officiate as Pilot on Board
the Ark

CHAPTER XXI.
The Doctor and his Wife on a Fishing Excursion--The Law of
the Case--Strong-minded Women

CHAPTER XXII.
A Beautiful Flower--A New Lake--A Moose--His Capture--A
Sumptuous Dinner

CHAPTER XXIII.
The Cricket in the Wall--The Minister's Illustration--Old
Memories

CHAPTER XXIV.
The Accidents of Life--"Some Men Achieve Greatness, and Some
have Greatness Thrust Upon Them"--A Slide--Rattle at
the Top and an Icy Pool at the Bottom--A Fanciful Story

CHAPTER XXV.
Headed Towards Home--The Martin and Sable Hunter--His
Cabin--Autumnal Scenery

CHAPTER XXVI.
A Surprise--A Serenade--A Visit from Strangers--An
Invitation to Breakfast--A Fashionable Hour and a
Bountiful Bill of Fare

CHAPTER XXVII.
Would I were a Boy Again!

CHAPTER XXVIII.
Headed Down Stream--Return to Tupper's Lake--The Camp on the
Island

CHAPTER XXIX.
A Mysterious Sound--Treed by a Moose--Angling for a Powder
Horn--An Unheeded Warning and the Consequences

CHAPTER XXX.
Good-bye--Floating Down the Rackett--A Black Fox--A Trick
upon the Martin Trappers and its Consequences

CHAPTER XXXI.
Out of the Woods--The Thousand Islands--Cape Vincent--Bass
Fishing--Home--A Searcher after Truth--An
Interruption--Finis

THE RIFLE AND THE ROD.