Robinson Crusoe, Jr.

Escape of Pussy.
RIVERDALE STORY BOOKS ROBINSON CRUSOE Jr. Boston, Lee & Shepard.
The Riverdale Books.
A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
BY OLIVER OPTIC, AUTHOR OF “THE BOAT CLUB,” “ALL ABOARD,” “NOW OR NEVER,” “TRY AGAIN,” “POOR AND PROUD,” “LITTLE BY LITTLE,” &c.
BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, (SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.) 1866.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
ROBINSON CRUSOE, Jr.
Robert Gray was a Riverdale boy, and a very smart one too. Very likely most of my readers will think he was altogether too smart for his years, when they have read the story I have to tell about him.
Robert was generally a very good boy, but, like a great many persons who are older and ought to be wiser than he was, he would sometimes get very queer notions into his head, which made him act very strangely.
He was born on the Fourth of July, which may be the reason why he was so smart, though I do not think it was. He could make boxes and carts, windmills and water-wheels, and ever so many other things.
Behind his father’s house there was a little brook, flowing into the river. In this stream Robert had built a dam, and put up a water-wheel, which kept turning day and night till a freshet came and swept it into the river.