He had no enmities--though several enemies--and

he had a thousand friends, particularly among the

ranks of the weak and the persecuted, whom he always

protected and avenged when opportunity offered. A

single instance of this kind will serve to show his character.

One day Dick and Crusoe were sitting on a rock beside

the lake--the same identical rock near which, when

a pup, the latter had received his first lesson. They

were conversing as usual, for Dick had elicited such a

fund of intelligence from the dog's mind, and had injected