ye think. What if he don't quite onderstand ye?"

Dick replied by taking off his cap and throwing it

down, at the same time exclaiming, "Take it yonder,

pup," and pointing with his hand towards the bluff.

The dog seized the cap, and went off with it at full

speed towards the willows, where it left it, and came

galloping back for the expected reward--not now, as in

days of old, a bit of meat, but a gentle stroke of its

head and a hearty clap on its shaggy side.

"Good pup! go now an' fetch it."