CONTENTS. XT
FAGX
Gratitude—I Fled through the Woods—A Grisly Spectacle—Shout,
Man, Shout—A Look of Surprise and Triumph—The Muffled Gurgle
of a Mocking Laugh—How strangely Things happen—The Hidden
Money.............297
CHAPTER inr'X'TT,
THE DISPOSAL OF A BONANZA.
Bitter's Narrative—A Question of Money—Napoleon—Somebody is
Serious—Where the Prettiest Girl used to Live.....315
(JHAPTER TTTTTTT,
REFRESHMENTS AND ETHICS.
A Question of Division—A Place where there was no Licence—The
Calhoun Land Company—A Cotton-planter's Estimate—Halifax and
Watermelons—JeweUod-up Bar-keepers......322
CHAPTER XXXIV.
TOUGH YARNS.
An Austere Han—A Mosquito Policy—Facts dressed in Tights—A
swelled Left Ear...........329
CHAPTER XXXT,
YICKSBURG DURING THE TROUBLE.
Signs and Scars—Cannon-thunder Rages—Cave-dwellers—A Continual
Sunday—A ton of Iron and no Glass—The Ardent is Saved—Mule
Meat—A National Cemetery—A Dog and a Shell—Railroads and
Wealth—Wharfage Economy-—Vicksburg twm The * Gold Dust '—
A Narrative in Anticipation........339
CHAPTER XXXTL
THE PROFESSOR'S TABK.
The Professor Spins a Yarn—An Enthusiast in Cattle—He makes a
Proposition—Loading Beeves at Acapulco—He wasn't Eaised to it-
He is Roped in—His Dull Byes Lit Up—Four Aces, you Ass!—He
doesn't Care for the Gores.........343