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[Illustration: _R. Pitcher Woodward at his journey's end._]


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  ON A DONKEY'S HURRICANE DECK


  A Tempestuous Voyage of Four
  Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles
  Across the American Continent on
  a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours

  STARTING WITHOUT A DOLLAR AND
  EARNING MY WAY

  BY

  R. PITCHER WOODWARD
  (PYTHAGORAS POD)

  AUTHOR OF

  "TRAINS THAT MET IN THE BLIZZARD"

  Containing Thirty-nine Pictures from
  Photographs Taken "en Voyage".


  1902

  I. H. BLANCHARD CO., PUBLISHERS

  NEW YORK




  COPYRIGHT, 1902,

  BY

  R. PITCHER WOODWARD

  [Illustration]

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CONTENTS.


PART I.

      I.   Madison Square to Yonkers             11

     II.   Donkey's many ailments                19

    III.   Polishing shoes at Vassar             27

     IV.   An even trade no robbery              35

      V.   The donkey on skates                  42

     VI.   Mac held for ransom                   51

    VII.   I mop the hotel floor                 60

   VIII.   Footpads fire upon us                 68

     IX.   In a haymow below zero                74

      X.   An asinine snowball                   83

     XI.   One bore is enough                    90

    XII.   At a country dance                    98

   XIII.   A peculiar, cold day                 105

    XIV.   I bargain for eggs                   111

     XV.   Gypsy girl tells fortune             116

    XVI.   All the devils are here              123

   XVII.   Darkest hour before dawn             132

  XVIII.   Champagne avenue, Chicago            142


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 <DW36> 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

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