1 - 'Cub' wants to be a Pilot

2 - 'Cub' Pilot's Exprience; or, Learning the River

3 - The Continued Perplexities of 'Cub' Piloting

4 - The 'Cub' Pilot's Education nearly Completed

5 - 'Sounding' Faculties Peculiarly Necessary to a Pilot

6 - Official Rank and Dignity of a Pilot. The Rise and Decadence of the Pilot's Asociation

7 - Leaving Port; Racing; Shortening of the River by Cut-offs; A Steamboar's Ghost; 'Stephen's' Plan of 'Resumption'

8 - A Literary Nightmare