some others come. 22

IV. We prepare to fight the Robbers and I make a little
Trip out to Bill Mountain's House: after I come back I
show what a great Fool I can be. 32

V. Alone in Track's End I repent of my hasty Action: with
what I do at the Headquarters House, and the whole
Situation in a Nutshell. 43

VI. Some Account of what I do and think the first Day
alone: with a Discovery by Kaiser at the End. 52

VII. I have a Fight and a Fright: after which I make some
Plans for the Future and take up my Bed and move. 61

VIII. I begin my Letters to my Mother and start my
Fortifications: then I very foolishly go away, meet
with an Accident, and see Something which throws me
into the utmost Terror. 69

IX. More of a strange Christmas: I make Kaiser useful in an
odd Way, together with what I see from under the Depot
Platform. 79

X. A Townful of Indians: with how I hide the Cow, and
think of Something which I don't believe the Indians
will like. 88

XI. I give the savage Indians a great Scare, and then
gather up my scattered Family at the end of a queer
Christmas Day. 97

XII. One of my Letters to my Mother, in which I tell of many
Things and especially of a Mystery which greatly
puzzles and alarms me. 105

XIII. Some Talk at Breakfast, and various other Family
Affairs: with Notes on the Weather, and a sight of
Something to the Northwest. 115

XIV. I have an exciting Hunt and get some Game, which I
bring Home with a vast deal of Labor, only to lose Part
of it in a startling Manner: together with a Dream and
an Awakening. 128

XV. The mysterious Fire, and Something further about my
wretched State of Terror: with an Account of my great
System of Tunnels and famous Fire Stronghold. 141

XVI. Telling of how Pike and his Gang come and of what
Kaiser and I