| CHAPTER | PAGE |
| I | In which I Arrive in New York | [3] |
| II | In which I Start Out in Quest of Work | [16] |
| III | I Try "Light" Housekeeping in a Fourteenth-street Lodging-house | [27] |
| IV | Wherein Fate Brings Me Good Fortune in One Hand and Disaster in the Other | [44] |
| V | In which I am "Learned" by Phœbe in the Art of Box-making | [58] |
| VI | In which Phœbe and Mrs. Smith Hold Forth upon Music and Literature | [75] |
| VII | In which I Acquire a Story-book Name and Make the Acquaintance of Miss Henrietta Manners | [92] |
| VIII | Wherein I Walk through Dark and Devious Ways with Henrietta Manners | [108] |
| IX | Introducing Henrietta's "Special Gentleman-friend" | [123] |
| X | In which I Find Myself a Homeless Wanderer in the Night | [142] |
| XI | I Become an "Inmate" of a Home for Working Girls | [151] |
| XII | In which I Spend a Happy Four Weeks Making Artificial Flowers | [180] |
| XIII | Three "Lady-friends," and the Adventures that Befall Them | [197] |
| XIV | In which a Tragic Fate Overtakes my "Lady-friends" | [215] |
| XV | I Become a "Shaker" in a Steam-laundry | [229] |
| XVI | In which it is Proved to Me that the Darkest Hour Comes Just Before the Dawn | [249] |
| Epilogue | [266] |