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

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dog Crusoe and His Master by Robert Michael Ballantyne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Dog Crusoe and His Master A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne Release Date: February 4, 2004 [EBook #10929] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DOG CRUSOE AND HIS MASTER *** Produced by Dave Morgan, Bradley Norton and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE DOG CRUSOE AND HIS MASTER A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies By Robert Michael Ballantyne Author of "The Coral Island," "The Young Fur-Traders," "Ungava," "The Gorilla-Hunters," "The World of Ice," "Martin Rattler." Etc. 1894 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The backwoods settlement--Crusoe's parentage and early history--The agonizing pains and sorrows of his puppyhood, and other interesting matters. CHAPTER II. A shooting-match and its consequences--New friends introduced to the reader--Crusoe and his mother change masters. CHAPTER III. Speculative remarks with which the reader may or may not agree--An old woman--Hopes and wishes commingled with hard facts--The dog Crusoe's education begun. CHAPTER IV. Our hero enlarged upon--Grumps. CHAPTER V.