pup, wouldn't ye like to grip a bar?"

Still Crusoe looked dubious, but made a gentle motion

with his tail, as though he would have said, "I've seen

neither Rocky Mountains nor grizzly bars, and know

nothin' about 'em, but I'm open to conviction."

"You're a brave pup," rejoined Dick, stroking the

dog's huge head affectionately. "I wouldn't give you

for ten times your weight in golden dollars--if there

be sich things."

Crusoe made no reply whatever to this. He regarded