Chapter VI: Book V

_Chap. i._: How Simplicissimus turned palmer and went on a pilgrimage with Herzbruder

_Chap. ii._: How Simplicissimus, being terrified of the devil, was converted

_Chap. iii._: How the two friends spent the winter

_Chap. iv._: In what manner Simplicissimus and Herzbruder went to the wars again and returned thence

_Chap. v._: How Simplicissimus rode courier and in the likeness of Mercury learned from Jove what his design was as regards war and peace

_Chap. vi._: A story of a trick that Simplicissimus played at the spa

_Chap. vii._: How Herzbruder died and how Simplicissimus again fell to wanton courses

_Chap. viii._: How Simplicissimus found his second marriage turn out, and how he met with his dad and learned who his parents had been

_Chap. ix._: In what manner the pains of childbirth came upon him, and how he became a widower

_Chap. x._: Relation of certain peasants concerning the wonderful Mummelsee

_Chap. xi._: Of the marvellous thanksgiving of a patient, and of the holy thoughts thereby awakened in Simplicissimus

_Chap. xii._: How Simplicissimus journeyed with the sylphs to the centre of the earth

_Chap. xvii._: How Simplicissimus returned from the middle of the earth, and of his strange fancies, his air-castles, his calculations; and how he reckoned without his host

_Chap. xviii._: How Simplicissimus wasted his spring in the wrong place

_Chap. xx._: Treats of a trifling promenade from the Black Forest to Moscow in Russia

_Chap. xxi._: How Simplicissimus further fared in Moscow

_Chap. xxii._: By what a short and merry road he came home to his dad

_Chap. xxiii._: Is very short and concerneth Simplicissimus alone

_Chap. xxiv._: Why and in what fashion Simplicissimus left the world again

APPENDIX A CONTINUATION

_Chap. xix._: How Simplicissimus and a carpenter escaped from a shipwreck with their lives and were thereafter provided with a land of their own

_Chap. xx._: How they hired a fair cook-maid and by God's help were rid of her again

_Chap. xxi._: How they thereafter kept house together and how they set to work

_Chap. xxii._: Further sequel of the above story, and how Simon Meron left the island and this life, and how Simplicissimus remained the sole lord of the island

_Chap. xxiii._: In which the hermit concludes his story and therewith ends these his six books

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

"Continuatio," _chap. xiii._: How Simplicissimus in return for a night's lodging, taught his host a curious art