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CONTENTS.

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• CHAPTER I.
  Town and Country contrasted, in relation to Vice and Crime. — A
  Display Party to avoid Bankruptcy. — Gaut Gurley, and other
  leading Characters, introduced as Actors in this scene of City
  Life 1

• CHAPTER II.
  Retrospect of the life of the Country Merchant, in making Money,
  to become a “Solid Man of Boston.” — Humble Beginnings. —
  Tempted into Smuggling from Canada in Embargo times, and
  makes a Fortune, by the aid of the desperate and daring Services
  of Gaut Gurley. — A Sketch of the Wild Scenes of Smuggling
  over the British line into Vermont and New Hampshire. — Removal
  to the City 15

• CHAPTER III.
  Gambling (an allegory) invented by the Fiends, and is proclaimed
  the Premium Vice by Lucifer. — A Gambling Scene between Gaut
  Gurley and the merchant, Mark Elwood. — The Failure of the
  latter. — The Refusal of his brother, Arthur Elwood, to help him.
  — The Surprise and Distress of his Family 27

• CHAPTER IV.
  The Downward Path of the Habitual Gambler. — His Family sharing
  in the Degradation, and becoming the suffering Victims of his
  Vices. — The Sudden Resolve to be a Man again, and remove to an
  unsettled Country, to begin Life anew in the Woods 38

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• CHAPTER V.
  The moral and intellectual Influences of Forest Life. — Scenery of
  Umbagog. — Description of Elwood's new Home in the Woods. —
  The Burning of his first Slash. — His House catches Fire, and he
  and his Wife engage in extinguishing it, praying for the return of
  their Son, Claud Elwood, to help them in their terrible strait 51

• CHAPTER VI.
  Claud Elwood and his Forest Musings. — Dangerous Assault, and
  slaying of a Moose. — Rescue of Gaut's Daughter from the enraged
  animal. — Strange Developments. — Incipient Love Scene. —
  Trout-catching. — Return of Claud and Phillips (the Old Hunter
  here first introduced), to aid in saving the Elwood Cottage from
  the fire. — The Thunder-shower comes to complete the conquest of
  the fire. — The destruction of the King Pine by a Thunderbolt 60

• CHAPTER VII.
  Journey up the Magalloway, to bring home the slaughtered Moose.
  — Love and its entanglements; its Sunshine now, its Storms in the
  distance 76

• CHAPTER VIII.
  Jaunt of Claud and Phillips over the Rapids to the next Great Lake,
  for Deer-hunting and Trout-catching. — Rescue of Fluella, the Indian
  Chief's Daughter, from Drowning in the Rapids. — Her
  remarkable Character for Intellect and Beauty 87

• CHAPTER IX.
  The Logging Bee. — The introduction of a New Character in Comical
  Codman, the Trapper. — The Woodmen's Banquet. — The
  forming of the Trapping and Hunting Company, to start on an
  Expedition to the Upper Lakes 108

• CHAPTER X.
  Developments of the dark and designing character of Gaut Gurley.
  — Tomah, the college-learned Indian 124

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• CHAPTER XI.
  Mrs. Elwood's Bodings, on account of the connection of her Husband
  and Son with Gaut and his Daughter. — Her Interview with
  Fluella. — Claud's Interview with Fluella and her Father, the
  Chief. — The Chief's History of his Tribe 137

• CHAPTER XII.
  Adventures of the Trappers the first day of their Expedition up the
  Lakes. — Bear-hunt, Trout-catching, etc. — Introduction of Carvil,
  an amateur Hunter from the Green Mountains 154

• CHAPTER XIII.
  The Trappers' Central Camp on the Maguntic Lake. — Three
  Stories of most remarkable Adventures in the Woods, told at the
  Camp-fire by three Hunters and Trappers 175

• CHAPTER XIV.
  The Voyage to Oquossah, the farthest large Lake. — The stationing
  of the Trappers at different points on the Lake. — The appointment
  of Gaut as Keeper of the Central Camp, on the Lake below. — The
  Results of their Fall's Operations, and Preparations to return
  Home 200

• CHAPTER XV.
  The Trappers overtaken by a terrible Snow-storm. — Their Suffering
  before reaching Central Camp.—The discovery that this Camp
  had been Burnt, and Robbed of their whole Stock of Furs. — Their
  Providential Escape from Death 211

• CHAPTER XVI.
  The Legal Prosecution to Recover their Furs, or punish Gaut, the
  supposed Criminal. — The unsatisfactory Result, and Gaut's dark
  menaces of Revenge 235

• CHAPTER XVII.
  Gaut's Efforts to get the old Company off into the Forest, on a
  Spring Expedition. — All refuse but Elwood and Son, who conclude
  to go. — Love Entanglements, and the boding Fears of
  Mrs. Elwood 246

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• CHAPTER XVIII.
  Opening of Spring in the Settlement. — The Trappers fail to Return.
  — Gaut comes without them. — The Alarm and Suspicions
  of the Settlers that he has Murdered the Elwoods. — The Circumstantial
  Evidence 260

• CHAPTER XIX.
  The attempt to Arrest Gaut. — His retreat to a Cave in the Mountain.
  — His final Dislodgement and Capture, for Trial and Examination
  275

• CHAPTER XX.
  Retrospect of the Adventures of Gaut and the Elwoods. — The
  Murder of Mark Elwood, and the Wounding of Claud, by Gaut. —
  Claud's life saved by Fluella 299

• CHAPTER XXI.
  Gaut's Trial, Sentence, and Imprisonment. — General Denouement
  of the Story. — Gaut breaks Jail, escapes, and becomes a desperate
  Pirate-leader 324

• SEQUEL.
  Awful Fate of a Pirate Ship. — Gaut's Death 350