CHAPTER I—SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
A study in black and white. "I'm the Duke of Missouri." Waxed floors too much for the fat boy. "I sometimes fall off a house to give me an appetite."

CHAPTER II—BOUND FOR THE CANE JUNGLE
Picking out their new ponies. Favors for the brave. Girl friends see the Pony Rider Boys in daring horsemanship. Tad ropes a pickaninny. The colored population treated to an unusual exhibition.

CHAPTER III—IN CAMP ON TENSAS BAYOU
Living with the snakes in the canebrake. Barred owls make the night hideous. Stacy's slumbers greatly disturbed. Little rest for the Pony Rider Boys. Stacy lays the foundation for trouble.

CHAPTER IV—NATURE BLOWS OUT A FUSE
The camp aroused by an explosion. Tents found ablaze. "The campfire has blown up!" Ichabod denies responsibility. Chunky admits his guilt. "Gentlemen, I shot a pig."

CHAPTER V—MAROONED IN A SWAMP
The cook finds Tad's feet out of doors. Strange sights in the jungle. On an island made over night. Snake and bird battle on high. Pony Riders are castaway for three days. A forest of perils.

CHAPTER VI—TAKING DESPERATE CHANCES
Dogs and birds welcome the sunlight. Tad blazes a trail on the cypress knees. "Have all you boys got scents like deerhounds?" Tad Butler amazes Bill Lilly, the guide.

CHAPTER VII—A SWIM IN TENSAS LAKE
Chunky goes in with the alligators. Tad's bullet speeds true. A narrow escape. Stacy up a tree. Ned Rector knows a way to get the fat boy down. Lively times in camp. The Professor takes a hand.

CHAPTER VIII—WOODMAN, SPARE THIS TREE
"No one can stay mad at me for very long." Chunky comes down in a heap. How they wound the hunter's horn. Stacy Brown is left behind and forgotten.

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.

CHAPTER XIX—WHAT TAD FOUND ON THE TRAIL
Venison steak and boiled bayou water. Bill Lilly is excited over Butler's discovery. "The cold-blooded scoundrel!" The guide hits the trail with blood in his eye.

CHAPTER XX—MAN-SIGNS IN THE CANEBRAKE
"He'll get a dose of lead if he doesn't watch out!" Tad finds a fresh trail. Lilly turns up a snaketrap. A moccasin in a bucket. Death traps laid by a bad man.

CHAPTER XXI—SURPRISES COME FAST
Alligator Pete gets the drop on the guide. Bill Lilly in a tight place. "Look out, this gun might go off!" The tables quickly turned.

CHAPTER XXII—OUTWITTED BY A BOY
Tad Butler ropes the enemy. "I'll kill you for that!" Pete stands on his head. A sign of surrender. The prisoner of the Pony Rider Boys. Butler takes a long chance.

CHAPTER XXIII—ICHABOD GETS A BIG SURPRISE
"De 'gator done gwine away, sah." Hounds and Pony Riders take the trail for bear. "They've got her!" A strange sight. A bullet that went home. Tad charged by a ferocious she-bear.

CHAPTER XXIV—CONCLUSION
In a dire predicament. Butler fights Mrs. Bruin. A hand and paw conflict. Tad's knife driven home. Laid up for repairs. Smugglers caught and punished. The triumph of pluck.