[CHAPTER IX—THE FAT BOY HUNG UP]
"Whoa, you fool horse!" "Give the baby his horn." A narrow escape from death. Down goes the fat boy again.
[CHAPTER X—IN THE HEART OF THE CANEBRAKE]
The bush-knife a dangerous weapon. Stacy found dangling in the air. Keeping company with an owl. Tad takes a perilous plunge. Chunky mixes it up with 'gators again.
[CHAPTER XI—ON THE BIG GAME TRAILS]
Roped on the verge of death. It takes the whole outfit to rescue the fat boy. "That 'gator won't have any further appetite for fat boys." Bear sign in the west.
[CHAPTER XII—THE QUEST OF THE PHANTOM DEER]
On the trail of a she-bear. Tad Butler's champion shot. A deer instead of a bear. Mighty hunters get a shock. "He's gone!" gasp the Pony Rider Boys.
[CHAPTER XIII—THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED]
On the trail of the stolen doe. "I'll break my neck if I ride any faster." Tad meets a suspicious character. Chunky makes a discovery. "Your nag has blood on his flank!"
[CHAPTER XIV—THE FAT BOY DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF]
"I remain right here. Stacy, wind the horn!" The stranger grows threatening. "A fellow who will steal a deer will not hesitate to lie!" The woodsman takes a shot at Tad. Chunky turns the tables on the man.
[CHAPTER XV—PLUCK AND THE DEAD DOE]
Just a preliminary skirmish. "I'll get you yet, you young whelp!" Stacy disarms a bad man. "Now get out of here as fast as you can ride!" Traveling amid perils.
[CHAPTER XVI—THE HORN POINTS THE WAY]
Joy and anger in the Pony Rider camp. Ichabod licks his chops at sight of Tad's doe. The story of the theft arouses Bill Lilly. "I reckon I've seen that hound before." Another day is coming.
[CHAPTER XVII—WOLVES ON THE TRAIL]
Stacy's hat no longer hits his head. Cane bears grow savage. Hounds set on the trail. Flying, snarling, yelping heaps of fur. Dogs and wolves in a battle to the death. Tad and Stacy jump into the fight.
[CHAPTER XVIII—A STAND IN GRIM EARNEST]
Wolves leap on the fallen fat boy. Tad battles with the beasts with revolver and bush-knife. Chunky sails in with a club and proves himself a hero. Professor Zepplin sees red.