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Chapter I - A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi
Chapter II - Showing that Many Men Have Many Minds
Chapter III - In Which a Variety of Characters Appear
Chapter IV - Renewal of Old Acquaintance
Chapter V - The Man with the Weed Makes it an Even Question Whether He Be a Great Sage or a Great Simpleton
Chapter VI - At the Outset of Which Certain Passengers Prove Deaf to the Call of Charity
Chapter VII - A Gentleman with Gold Sleeve-Buttons
Chapter VIII - A Charitable Lady
Chapter IX - Two Business Men Transact a Little Business
Chapter X - In the Cabin
Chapter XI - Only a Page or So
Chapter XII - Story of the Unfortunate Man, from Which May Be Gathered Whether or No He Has Been Justly so Entitled
Chapter XIII - The Man with the Traveling-Cap Evinces Much Humanity, and in a Way Which Would Seem to Show Him to Be One of the
Chapter XIV - Worth the Consideration of Those to Whom it May Prove Worth Considering
Chapter XV - An Old Miser, Upon Suitable Representations, is Prevailed Upon to Venture an Investment
Chapter XVI - A Sick Man, After Some Impatience, is Induced to Become a Patient
Chapter XVII - Towards the End of Which the Herb-Doctor Proves Himself a Forgiver of Injuries
Chapter XVIII - Inquest into the True Character of the Herb-Doctor
Chapter XIX - A Soldier of Fortune
Chapter XX - Reappearance of One Who May Be Remembered
Chapter XXI - A Hard Case
Chapter XXII - In the Polite Spirit of the Tusculan Disputations
Chapter XXIII - In Which the Powerful Effect of Natural Scenery is Evinced in the Case of the Missourian, Who, in View of the Re
Chapter XXIV - A Philanthropist Undertakes to Convert a Misanthrope, but Does Not Get Beyond Confuting Him
Chapter XXV - The Cosmopolitan Makes an Acquaintance
Chapter XXVI - Containing the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating, According to the Views of One Evidently Not so Prepossessed as Rouss
Chapter XXVII - Some Account of a Man of Questionable Morality, but Who, Nevertheless, Would Seem Entitled to the Esteem of that
Chapter XXVIII - Moot Points Touching the Late Colonel John Moredock
Chapter XXIX - The Boon Companions
Chapter XXX - Opening with a Poetical Eulogy of the Press and Continuing with Talk Inspired by the Same
Chapter XXXI - A Metamorphosis More Surprising than Any in Ovid
Chapter XXXII - Showing that the Age of Magic and Magicians is Not Yet Over
Chapter XXXIII - Which May Pass for Whatever it May Prove to Be Worth
Chapter XXXIV - In Which the Cosmopolitan Tells the Story of the Gentleman Madman
Chapter XXXV - In Which the Cosmopolitan Strikingly Evinces the Artlessness of His Nature
Chapter XXXVI - In Which the Cosmopolitan is Accosted by a Mystic, Whereupon Ensues Pretty Much Such Talk as Might Be Expected
Chapter XXXVII - The Mystical Master Introduces the Practical Disciple
Chapter XXXVIII - The Disciple Unbends, and Consents to Act a Social Part
Chapter XXXIX - The Hypothetical Friends
Chapter XL - In Which the Story of China Aster is at Second-Hand Told by One Who, While Not Disapproving the Moral, Disclaims th
Chapter XLI - Ending with a Rupture of the Hypothesis
Chapter XLII - Upon the Heel of the Last Scene the Cosmopolitan Enters the Barber's Shop, a Benediction on His Lips
Chapter XLIII - Very Charming
Chapter XLIV - In Which the Last Three Words of the Last Chapter Are Made the Text of Discourse, Which Will Be Sure of Receiving
Chapter XLV - The Cosmopolitan Increases in Seriousness

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