PART I: "The First Forty-nine" -- Preface to "The First Forty-nine" -- Short happy life of Francis Macomber -- Capital of the world -- Snows of Kilimanjaro -- Old man at the bridge -- Up in Michigan -- On the Quai at Smyrna -- Indian camp -- Doctor and the doctor's wife -- End of something -- Three-day blow -- Battler -- A very short story -- Soldier's home -- Revolutionist -- Mr. and Mrs. Elliot -- Cat in the rain -- Out of Season -- Cross-country snow -- My old man -- Big two-hearted river -- Undefeated -- In another country -- Hills like white elephants -- Che Ti DIce La Patria? -- Fifty grand -- A simple enquiry -- Ten Indians -- A canary for one -- An Alpine idyll -- A pursuit race -- Today is Friday -- Banal story -- Now I lay me -- After the storm -- A clean, well-lighted place -- Light of the world -- God rest you merry, gentlemen -- Sea change -- A way you'll never be -- Mother of a queen -- One reader writes -- Homage to Switzerland -- A day's wait -- A natural history of the dead -- Wine of Wyoming -- Gambler, the nun, and the radio -- Fathers and sons. PART II. Short stories published in books or magazines subsequent to "The First Forty-nine": One trip across -- Tradesman's return -- Denunciation -- Butterfly and the tank -- Night before battle -- Under the ridge -- Nobody ever dies -- Good lion -- Faithful bull -- Get a seeing-eyed dog -- A man of the world -- Summer people -- Last good country -- An African story. PART III. Previously unpublished fiction: A train trip -- Porter -- Black ass at the cross roads -- Landscape with figures -- I guess everything reminds you of something -- Great news from the mainland -- Strange country.