a top for four hours. At the end of that time he

jumped up, bolted a scrap of skin that somehow had

been overlooked at supper, and flew straight over the

prairie to the spot where he had had the scuffle with

the Indian. He came to the edge of the river, took

precisely the same leap that his master had done before

him, and came out on the other side a good deal higher

up than Dick had done, for the dog had no savages to

dodge, and was, as we have said before, a powerful

swimmer.