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rarely laughs in the young hours of the day, and reeted by no hostile shot, and found our vessel quite as we

had left her, as I could see at a glance e neared the bank; but,

none the less, so, greeted Hiroshie!" called out Lafitte The dog--a dog none too beautiful,

and now just a bit forlorn--approached us, alternately wagging in

friendship and retreating in alarm

"Well, what do you think of that!" said Jimmy "We left him back at

the lake--sent hiet here, and

how'd he knohere as?"

"He couldn't a-swum the lake," assented John "And it was more'n ten

miles around; and how could he se, you bla, but a creature of great

reason, else he never could have found you And I'll be bound he is as

keen for adventure as any of us"

"He is coht tore after dinner," said the

o He, also, is

malefactor"