enough, which'll be in a day or two, I hope, and we'll

put one-half of the skin below us and t'other half above

us i' the camp, an' sleep, an' eat, an' take it easy for a

week or two--won't we, pup?"

"Hoora-a-a-y!" shouted Crusoe, with a jovial wag of

his tail, that no human arm with hat, or cap, or kerchief

ever equalled.

Poor Dick Varley! He smiled to think how earnestly

he had been talking to the dog; but he did not cease to

do it, for although he entered into discourses the drift