Adrift in the Wilds

ssing his companion, although at the time he was looking

d his cousin, who was pushing and drawing a

asked his cousin, turni

should blow up, we run on a rock, ta

s the impatient exclamation. "One is

y-heig

nd, and the mischievous dog, springing suddenly to his feet, brought his master fro

se," said Howard, rec

, and he is getting tired of it; but I may say, Howard, I shall hardl

a difference in us, while I can't

perhaps an additional wrinkle or

ng and smoking. Fact is that is about al

ve no doubt he has enjoyed the trip to an

g with a vague, dreamy expression out upon the great Pacific, stretching so many thousand mil

for Asia," laughed El

f Ireland, for he would be as likely to look

as addressed the second time in a louder tone

! what

you thinki

, I was

ng! wha

was a qua'r dream,

s hea

's onpl

ind, out

and all of us passengers was jumping around in the wather, pulling each other down, awa

ys at the mention of this, and they lo

at into your

ever draamed of such a thing in my life before, and it'

t," said Elwood, showing an

oing to be

plied Elwood. "I'd just as soon

must be after eleven

o examine me watch; and if I was, I couldn't tel

for him to distinguish the hands, and the three were cont

are we to land

at the land is from us, and begorrah tha

y when the sun was setting," said Howa

ff here?" pursued Elwood, point

there are plenty of India

" asked Elwood, i

learn all about California

d there?" said Elwood, i

that than I can, as he came

s that

he truth. I wint up among t

t luck h

the copper-skins, chawed up by the b'ars, froze to death in the mountains, drowned in the rivers-that run into the top of yer shanty when yer sound aslee

aughed, Ho

Tim; there have been plenty who h

O'Rooneys. He's not the ma

r satisfied w

good home, and an ongrateful dog

d this night air begins to feel chi

re he is; old fellow, come along and

ange, husky intonation, "you remember

what o

coming

ke the