Chap. v.: How Simplicissimus pondered on his past life, and how with the water up to his mouth he learned to swim
Chap. vi.: How he became a vagabond quack and a cheat
Chap. vii.: How the doctor was fitted with a musquet under Captain Curmudgeon
Chap. viii.: How Simplicissimus endured a cheerless bath in the Rhine
Chap. ix.: Wherefore clergymen should never eat hares that have been taken in a snare
Chap. x.: How Simplicissimus was all unexpectedly quit of his musquet
Chap. xi.: Discourses of the Order of the Marauder Brothers
Chap. xii.: Of a desperate fight for life in which each party doth yet escape death
Chap. xiii.: How Oliver conceived that he could excuse his brigand's tricks
Chap. xiv.: How Oliver explained Herzbruder's prophecy to his own profit, and so came to love his worst enemy