I I Discover Moses and the Bulrushers p. 1
II Our Gang's Dark Oath p. 7
III We Ambuscade the A-rabs p. 16
IV The Hair-Ball Oracle p. 23
V Pap Starts In on a New Life p. 29
VI Pap Struggles with the Death Angel p. 36
VII I Fool Pap and Get Away p. 46
VIII I Spare Miss Watson's Jim p. 56
IX The House of Death Floats By p. 72
X What Comes of Handlin' Snakeskin p. 78
XI They're After Us! p. 84
XII "Better Let Blame' Well Alone" p. 95
XIII Honest Loot from the "Walter Scott" p. 106
XIV Was Solomon Wise? p. 114
XV Fooling Poor Old Jim p. 121
XVI The Rattlesnake Skin Does Its Work p. 130
XVII The Grangerfords Take Me In p. 143
XVIII Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat p. 156
XIX The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard p. 174
XX What Royalty Did to Parkville p. 187
XXI An Arkansaw Difficulty p. 200
XXII Why the Lynching Bee Failed p. 214
XXIII The Orneriness of Kings p. 223
XXIV The King Turns Parson p. 232
XXV All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle p. 241
XXVI I Steal the King's Plunder p. 252
XXVII Dead Peter Has His Gold p. 264
XXVIII Overreaching Don't Pay p. 274
XXIX I Light Out in the Storm p. 288
XXX The Gold Saves the Thieves p. 302
XXXI You Can't Pray a Lie p. 308
XXXII I Have a New Name p. 322
XXXIII The Pitiful Ending of Royalty p. 331
XXXIV We Cheer Up Jim p. 342
XXXV Dark, Deep-laid Plans p. 351
XXXVI Trying to Help Jim p. 362
XXXVII Jim Gets His Witch Pie p. 370
XXXVIII "Here a Captive Heart Busted" p. 380
XXXIX Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters p. 390
XL A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue p. 398
XLI "Must 'A' Been Sperits" p. 407
XLII Why They Didn't Hang Jim p. 417
Chapter the Last: Nothing More to Write p. 429