Contents: Foreword. I: 1. Birth of Gay-Neck. 2. Education of Gay-Neck. 3. Training in direction. 4. Gay-Neck in the Himalayas. 5. On Gay-Neck's track. 6. Gay-Neck's truancy. 7. Gay-Neck's story. 8. Gay-Neck's Odyssey (continued). II: 9. Gay-Neck's training for war. 10. War training (continued). 11. Mating of Gay-Neck. 12. War calls Gay-Neck. 13. Second adventure. 14. Ghond goes reconnoitering. 15. Gay-Neck tells how he carried the message. 16. Healing of hate and fear. 17. The wisdom of the Lama.

"Gay-Neck is the heart-warming and sometimes almost heartbreaking story of the training and care of a carrier pigeon. Writing out of his own experience as a boy in India, Dhan Gopal Mukerji tells how Gay-Neck's master, an eager, highly-sensitive lad, sent his exceptional training and his brave heart, Gay-Neck served his new masters heroically. Here is more than just a simple story of a pigeon's training and adventuring, of Gay-Neck is a bearer of messages, and his messages are words of courage and love."