Obedience was engrained in every fibre of Crusoe's

mental and corporeal being. He did not merely answer

at once to the call--he

sprang

to it, leaving the prairie-hen

untasted.

"Fetch it, pup," cried Dick eagerly as the dog came

up.

In a few moments the hen was at his feet. Dick's

circumstances could not brook the delay of cookery; he