Jim Ugly is a tough, sandy mongrel with a large helping of timber wolf. Jake has never really liked him. But when his dad disappears, he and Jim Ugly become partners in a wild, helter-skelter...

For Jingo Hawks, brought up in a miserable kind of orphanage, even being a chimney sweep seemed like an improvement, and when he was sold for 200 dollars to help the strange Mr Peacock go treasure...