summit of a distant ridge, where a small black object

was seen moving against the sky, "that's a deer, ain't

it?"

Joe shaded his eyes with his hand, and gazed earnestly

at the object in question. "Ye're right, boy; and by

good luck we've got the wind of him. Cut in an' take

your chance now. There's a long strip o' wood as'll

let ye git close to him."

Before the sentence was well finished Dick and

Crusoe were off at full gallop. For a few hundred