that wily chief was treed by Crusoe in the prairie.

Young Marston was there, too, hanging about Dick,

whom he loved as a brother and regarded as a perfect

hero. Grumps, too, was there, and Fan. Do you

think, reader, that Grumps looked at any one but

Crusoe? If you do, you are mistaken. Grumps on

that day became a regular, an incorrigible, utter, and

perfect nuisance to everybody--not excepting himself,

poor beast! Grumps was a dog of one idea, and that

idea was Crusoe. Out of that great idea there grew one