last supper was ready and they began.

Dick had purposely kept the dog's supper back from

him, in order that they might eat it in company. And

between every bite and sup that Dick took, he gave a

bite--but not a sup--to Crusoe. Thus lovingly they

ate together; and when Dick lay that night under the

willow branches, looking up through them at the stars,

with his feet to the fire and Crusoe close along his side,

he thought it the best and sweetest supper he ever ate,

and the happiest evening he ever spent--so wonderfully