CHAPTER I.Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri
CHAPTER II. He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay
CHAPTER III Uncle Daniel's Apparition and PrayeR
CHAPTER IV The Steamboat Explosion
CHAPTER VAdoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by ColonelBeriah Sellers
CHAPTER VITrouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land
CHAPTER VIIColonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism
CHAPTER VIIIColonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes andAstonishes Washington Hawkins
CHAPTER IXDeath of Judge Hawkins
