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Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894

"The Dog Crusoe and His Master A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies"


"Good pup! go now an' fetch it."
Away he went with a bound, and in a few seconds came back and
deposited the cap at his master's feet.
"Will that do?" asked Dick, triumphantly.

"Ay, lad, it will. The pup's worth its weight in goold."
"Oui, I have said, and I say it agen, de dog is _human_, so him is. If
not, fat am he?"
Without pausing to reply to this perplexing question, Dick stepped
forward again, and in half-an-hour or so they were back in the camp.
"Now for _your_ part of the work, Joe. Yonder's the squaw that owns
the half-drowned baby. Everything depends on her."
Dick pointed to the Indian woman as he spoke. She was sitting beside
her tent, and playing at her knee was the identical youngster who had
been saved by Crusoe.
"I'll manage it," said Joe, and walked towards her, while Dick and
Henri returned to the chief's tent.
"Does the Pawnee woman thank the Great Spirit that her child is
saved?" began Joe as he came up.
"She does," answered the woman, looking up at the hunter.


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