Book III

Chap. i.: How the huntsman went too far to the left hand

Chap. ii.: How the huntsman of Soest did rid himself of the huntsman of Wesel

Chap. iii.: How the Great God Jupiter was captured and how he revealed the counsels of the gods

Chap. iv.: Of the German hero that shall conquer the whole world and bring peace to all nations

Chap. v.: How he shall reconcile all religions and cast them in the same mould

Chap. vi.: How the embassy of the fleas fared with Jupiter

Chap. vii.: How the huntsman again secured honour and booty

Chap. viii.: How he found the devil in the trough, and how Jump-i’-th’-field got fine horses

Chap. ix.: Of an unequal combat in which the weakest wins the day and the conqueror is captured

Chap. x.: How the Master-General of Ordnance granted the huntsman his life and held out hopes of great things

Chap. xi.: Contains all manner of matters of little import and great imagination

Chap. xii.: How fortune unexpected bestowed on the huntsman a noble present

Chap. xiii.: Of Simplicissimus’ strange fancies and castles in the air, and how he guarded his treasure

Chap. xiv.: How the huntsman was captured by the enemy

Chap. xv.: On what condition the huntsman was set free

Chap. xvi.: How Simplicissimus became a nobleman

Chap. xvii.: How the huntsman disposed himself to pass his six months: and also somewhat of the prophetess

Chap. xviii.: How the huntsman went a wooing, and made a trade of it

Chap. xix.: By what means the huntsman made friends, and how he was moved by a sermon

Chap. xx.: How he gave the faithful priest other fish to fry, to cause him to forget his own hoggish life

Chap. xxi.: How Simplicissimus all unawares was made a married man

Chap. xxii.: How Simplicissimus held his wedding feast and how he purposed to begin his new life

Chap. xxiii.: How Simplicissimus came to a certain town (which he nameth for convenience Cologne) to fetch his treasure

Chap. xxiv.: How the huntsman caught a hare in the middle of a town