Jim

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Charles George Douglas Roberts. Jim

Jim

Table of Contents

I. HOW WOOLLY BILLY CAME TO BRINE’S RIP

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II. THE BOOK AGENT AND THE BUCKSKIN BELT

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III. THE HOLE IN THE TREE

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IV. THE TRAIL OF THE BEAR

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V. THE FIRE AT BRINE’S RIP MILLS

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VI. THE MAN WITH THE DANCING BEAR

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THE EAGLE

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THE MULE

STRIPES THE UNCONCERNED

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Charles George Douglas Roberts

The story of a backwoods police dog

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But no one came. The child began to sob softly, in a lonesome, frightened, suppressed way. In a minute or two, however, he stopped this, and rose to his feet, and began repeating over and over the shrill wail of “Daddy, Dad-dee-ee, Daddee-ee!” At the same time he peered about him in every direction, almost hopefully, as if he thought his father must be hiding somewhere near, to jump out presently for a game of bo-peep with him.

His baby eyes were keen. They did not find his father, but they found the bear, its great black head staring at him from behind a bush.

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