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A ether, under the old tree wherein the as dangling in loud-o at it!" exclai the tools, he quickly found the ax

"You, Beta," he directed, "get together all the plaited rope you can take off the bag, and cut me some strips of hide Cut a lot of theot to clear out of here before sunrise or there may be the devil to pay!"

It was a labor of extraordinary difficulty, there in those dense and di it out and cutting it into three sections But Stern attacked it like a deain he stopped to listen or to jab tile suspended ith the ax-handle

"Go on there, you alarood and loud, too Maybe if you deliver the goods and hold out--well, you'll get aith your life Otherwise, not!"

Robinson Crusoe's raft had been a ineer had to construct there at the water's edge, aes and the reeds For Crusoe had planks and beaht but his ax, the forest, and soloo to stimulate the wolf The dull and rusty ax retarded hiain But still he toiled

The three longitudinal spruce tiether with poles and with the cords that Beatrice prepared for hih-hewn

In half an hour's hard work, while the an to sink to the ard, he had stepped a crudeto row thisahand "We either rig the skin sack in some way as a sail, or we drift up with the tide, tie at the ebb, and so on--and if we alow in three days we're lucky!

"Come on now, Beatrice Lend a hand here and we'll launch her! Good thing the tide's co up--she almost floats already Now, one, two, three!"

The absurd raft yielded, moved, slid out upon the marshy water and was afloat!

"Get aboard!" commanded Allan "Go forward to the salon de luxe I'll stow the bag aft, so"