The dandy frightening the squatter -- From Letter to Annie Taylor -- Letter from Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass -- River intelligence -- A Washoe joke -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Story of the bad little boy -- Arrival at Honolulu -- In the Station House -- Jim Wolf and the Tom-Cats -- The tomb of Adam -- Jim Blaine and his Grandfather's old ram -- A genuine Mexican plug -- Lost in the snow -- A true story -- Old times on the Mississippi -- The boys' ambition -- I want to be a cub-pilot -- A cub-pilot's experience -- A daring deed -- Perplelxing lessons -- Continued perplexities -- Completing my education -- The river rises -- Sounding -- A pilot's needs -- Rank and dignity of piloting -- The pilots' monopoly -- An encounter with an interviewer -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- The Whittier birthday speech -- The great revolution in Pitcarin -- The babies -- Baker's blue-jay yarn -- The awful German language -- Frescoes from the past -- The private history of a campaign that failed -- The art of authorship -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- How to tell a story -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- To the person sitting in darkness -- The mysterious stranger.