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BY
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
AUTHOR OF “KINGS IN EXILE,” “THE BACKWOODSMEN,” “THE HOUSE IN THE WATER,” ETC.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1909 and 1910,
By THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY,
and
By THE ASSOCIATED SUNDAY MAGAZINES, INCORPORATED.
Copyright, 1911,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1911.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

To
PATRICIA

CONTENTS

PAGE [On the Roof of the World] 1 [Black Swamp] 15 [The Isle of Birds] 33 [The Antlers of the Caribou] 51 [The Sentry of the Sedge-Flats] 67 [A Tree-top Aeronaut] 85 [The Theft] 103 [The Tunnel Runners] 127 [A Torpedo in Feathers] 151 [How a Cat played Robinson Crusoe] 173 [Little Bull of the Barrens] 193 [The Tiger of the Sea] 211 [Gray Lynx’s Last Hunting] 235 [Mothers of the North] 253

ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD