Chapter II: Part II: By Pye Pod and Mac A'rony

XIX. Donk causes a sensation 153

XX. A donkey for Alderman 158

XXI. A donkey without a father 169

XXII. Rat trap and donkey's tail 173

XXIII. Mac crosses the Mississippi 178

XXIV. Pod hires a valet 183

XXV. Done by a horsetrader 190

XXVI. Pod under arrest 197

XXVII. Adventure in a sleeping bag 208

XXVIII. Mayor rides Mac A'Rony 213

XXIX. Across the Missouri in wheelbarrow 219

XXX. Pod in insane asylum 224

XXXI. Narrow escape in quicksand 237

XXXII. At Buffalo Bill's ranch 243

XXXIII. Fourth of July in the desert 250

XXXIV. Bitten by a rattler 253

XXXV. Havoc in a cyclone 260

XXXVI. Two pretty dairy maids 265

XXXVII. Donks climb Pike's Peak 273

XXXVIII. Sights in Cripple Creek 280

XXXIX. Baby girl named for Pod 287

XL. Treed by a silvertip bear 293

XLI. Nearly drowned in the Rockies 304

XLII. Donkey shoots the chutes 309

XLIII. Paint sign with donk's tail 319

XLIV. Swim two rivers in Utah 326

XLV. Initiated to Mormon faith 339

XLVI. Typewriting on a donkey 343

XLVII. Pod kissed by sweet sixteen 348

XLVIII. Last drop in the canteen 352

XLIX. How donkey pulls a tooth 364

L. Encounter with two desperadoes 369

LI. Donk, boy and dried apples 380

LII. Lost in Nevada desert 385

LIII. A frightful ghost dance 393

LIV. Across Sierras in deep snow 400

LV. All down a toboggan slide 409

LVI. 'Frisco at last, we win! 415

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Portrait) The traveler at the journey's end.

"I bade my friends farewell."

"We consumed a half hour in the gigantic task."

"I found the captive drinking with other jackasses."

"We tramped tired and footsore into the village."

"Mac could draw my luggage instead of carrying it."

"Mac's little legs would get stuck."

"Mac supervised the work."

"The only time I got ahead of him."

"I scrutinized his hat inquisitively."

"He accused me of attempting suicide."

"We made slow headway to the Mississippi.

"In this way I crossed that bridge of size."

"And I saw the streak of daylight."

"Mac was so slow that his shadow beat him to town."

"Over the Platte bridge, after blindfolding them."

"I killed my first rattlesnake."

"That was the town of Korty."

"Climbing Pike's Peak."

"He had caught a nice mess of trout."

"Trail through the timber."

"Independence Pass; one of the loftiest of the Continental
Divide."

"Trail to Florisant."

"Two days of hard climbing to cross Western Pass."

"Through thickets, tangled roots and fallen trees."

"To swim and float on Salt Lake."

"Skull Valley desert, we stopped to feed and rest."

"The last and only drop."

"Just finished lunch when the possé arrived."

"Coonskin and I took shelter behind our donkeys."

"Through Devil's Gate, their panniers scraped the walls
of the rocky gateway."

"Fired their revolvers in the air."

"Some Piute Indians who had camped close by."

"Playing Solitaire on Damfino's broad back."

"Began to plow snow toward Placerville.

"The cattle passed us, after we donks had broken the
trail."

"Across on the exclusive Solano."

"I pointed toward the goal."

"The ferry approach in 'Frisco was choked with a
rabble."

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