| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| [I] | Pony’s Mother, and why he had a Right to run off | 3 |
| [II] | The Right that Pony had to run off, from the way his Father acted | 15 |
| [III] | Jim Leonard’s Hair-breadth Escape | 32 |
| [IV] | The Scrape that Jim Leonard got the Boys into | 52 |
| [V] | About running away to the Indian Reservation on a Canal-boat, and how the Plan failed | 77 |
| [VI] | How the Indians came to the Boy’s Town and Jim Leonard acted the Coward | 89 |
| [VII] | How Frank Baker spent the Fourth at Pawpaw Bottom, and saw the Fourth of July Boy | 105 |
| [VIII] | How Pony Baker came pretty near running off with a Circus | 141 |
| [IX] | How Pony did not quite get off with the Circus | 152 |
| [X] | The Adventures that Pony’s cousin, Frank Baker, had with a Pocketful of Money | 165 |
| [XI] | How Jim Leonard planned for Pony Baker to run off on a Raft | 192 |
| [XII] | How Jim Leonard backed out, and Pony had to give it up | 208 |
Illustrations
“ALL THE FELLOWS CAME ROUND AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO NOW” Frontispiece
“BEING DRESSED SO WELL WAS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT WAS DONE TO HIM BY HIS MOTHER”[4]
“‘I’LL LEARN THAT LIMB TO SLEEP IN A COW-BARN!’” [50]
“REAL INDIANS, IN BLANKETS, WITH BOWS AND ARROWS” [90]
“VERY SMILING-LOOKING” [124]
“HE BEGAN BEING COLD AND STIFF WITH HER THE VERY NEXT MORNING” [144]
“FRANK BAKER WAS ONE OF THOSE FELLOWS THAT EVERY MOTHER WOULD FEEL HER BOY WAS SAFE WITH” [166]