councils of the Mustang
Valley, but Dick Varley preferred the woods, although, as long as his
mother lived, he hovered round her cottage--going off sometimes for a
day, sometimes for a week, but never longer. After her head was laid in
the dust, Dick took altogether to the woods with Crusoe and Charlie the
wild horse as his only companions, and his mother's Bible in the breast
of his hunting shirt. And soon Dick, the bold hunter, and his dog
Crusoe, became renowned in the frontier settlements from the banks of
the Yellow Stone River to the Gulf of Mexico.

Many a grizzly bear did the famous "silver rifle" lay low, and many a
wild exciting chase and adventure did Dick go through, but during his
occasional visits to the Mustang Valley, he was wont to say to Joe Blunt
and Henri--with whom he always sojourned--that "nothin' he ever felt or
saw came up to his first grand dash over the Western Prairies into the
heart of the Rocky Mountains." And in saying this, with enthusiasm in
his eye and voice, Dick invariably appealed to, and received a ready
affirmative glance from, his early companion, and his faithful loving
friend--the dog Crusoe.

THE END.

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