CONTENTS.
| [Introduction.] | |
| [Chapter I.] | —Two Hat Wearers |
| [Chapter II.] | —Judge and Daughter |
| [Chapter III.] | —The Foresters |
| [Chapter IV.] | —Discovery of the Heirloom |
| [Chapter V.] | —The Bog-ore Tract |
| [Chapter VI.] | —The Custises Ruined |
| [Chapter VII.] | —Jack-o'-lantern Iron |
| [Chapter VIII.] | —The Hat Finds a Rack |
| [Chapter IX.] | —Ha! ha! the Wooing on't |
| [Chapter X.] | —Master in the Kitchen |
| [Chapter XI.] | —Dying Pride |
| [Chapter XII.] | —Princess Anne Folks |
| [Chapter XIII.] | —Shadow of the Tile |
| [Chapter XIV.] | —Meshach's Home |
| [Chapter XV.] | —The Kidnapper |
| [Chapter XVI.] | —Bell-crown Man |
| [Chapter XVII.] | —Sabbath and Canoe |
| [Chapter XVIII.] | —Under an Old Bonnet |
| [Chapter XIX.] | —The Dusky Levels |
| [Chapter XX.] | —Caste without Tone |
| [Chapter XXI.] | —Long Separations |
| [Chapter XXII.] | —Nanticoke People |
| [Chapter XXIII.] | —Twiford's Island |
| [Chapter XXIV.] | —Old Chimneys |
| [Chapter XXV.] | —Patty Cannon's |
| [Chapter XXVI.] | —Van Dorn |
| [Chapter XXVII.] | —Cannon's Ferry |
| [Chapter XXVIII.] | —Pacification |
| [Chapter XXIX.] | —Beginning of the Raid |
| [Chapter XXX.] | —Africa |
| [Chapter XXXI.] | —Peach Blush |
| [Chapter XXXII.] | —Garter-snakes |
| [Chapter XXXIII.] | —Honeymoon |
| [Chapter XXXIV.] | —The Ordeal |
| [Chapter XXXV.] | —Cowgill House |
| [Chapter XXXVI.] | —Two Whigs |
| [Chapter XXXVII.] | —Spirit of the Past |
| [Chapter XXXVIII.] | —Virgie's Flight |
| [Chapter XXXIX.] | —Virgie's Flight—Continued |
| [Chapter XL.] | —Hulda Beleaguered |
| [Chapter XLI.] | —Aunt Patty's Last Trick |
| [Chapter XLII.] | —Beaks |
| [Chapter XLIII.] | —Pleasure Drained |
| [Chapter XLIV.] | —The Death of Patty Cannon |
| [Chapter XLV.] | —The Judge Remarried |
| [Chapter XLVI.] | —The Curse of the Hat |
| [Chapter XLVII.] | —Failure and Restitution |
A picture of Joe Johnson's Kidnapper's Tavern, as it stood in the year 1883, is given on the title-page.