Copyright, 1888, by Harper & Brothers.


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Mr. Crusoe saves me from a Flogging[Frontispiece.]
“‘It’s all right, Mike. My Grandfather ran his Raft Ashore in just the same Way’”[19]
“Before he had gone Ten Feet his Sword tripped him up”[47]
“He looked Worse than any Heathen that ever was Born”[59]
Mike Takes the Part of “Man Friday”[67]
Mr. Crusoe superintends the Building of the Canoe[77]
The Footprint in the Sand[99]
“He called the Visitors ‘Cannibals of the Deepest Dye’”[119]
“I was too quick for him, and threw him down”[131]
“‘I must have had a Brain-fever, Michael,’ said he”[141]

A NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE.


CHAPTER I.

I did not exactly write this story, for I can’t write very much except my name, but I talked it all, from beginning to end, to a man who writes just as plain as print, and he wrote it down just as I told it to him. At least he said he would, and I am pretty sure he kept his word; but if he did happen to put any mistakes into it, you will know they are his, and not mine.