I. In Which Parson Wibird Hawkins Retires from Business 7

II. A Parson of the Old School 15

III. Mr. Dent and his Ward 29

IV. Dragons 37

V. The Romance of Horseshoe Lane 57

VI. Concerning a Skeleton in a Closet 84

VII. How John Dent made his Pile and Lost it 107

VIII. The Parson's Last Text 134

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IX. A Will, and the Way of it 150

X. The New Minister 166

XI. A New England Idol 179

XII. Prue! 194

XIII. Jonah 214

XIV. King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 222

XV. Colonel Peyton Todhunter 233

XVI. How Prue sang “Auld Robin Gray” 255

XVII. How Mr. Dillingham looked out of a Window 269

XVIII. A Rivermouth Mystery 301