8 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street

To Chauncey Lewis and to "Buster," good friends both, sometimes to
recall to them places and occasions at Mike Marr's: Dead Man's Point,
Rolling Ledge, the Canoe Landing, the swift and wilful waters of the
West Branch, Squaw Mountain, the trail to Dead Stream, the raft on
Horseshoe, the Big Fish, the gracious kindness of the L. L. of E. O.,
(as well as her sandwiches), and the never-to-be-forgotten flapjacks
that "didn't look it" but were indeed "all there."

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. _In Which Jimmie Grimm, Not Being Able to Help It, Is
Born At Buccaneer Cove, Much to His Surprise, and Tog,
the Wolf-Dog, Feels the Lash of a Seal-hide Whip and
Conceives an Enmity_ 15

II. _In Which Jimmie Grimm is Warned Not to Fall Down,
and Tog, Confirmed in Bad Ways, Raids Ghost Tickle,
Commits Murder, Runs With the Wolves, Plots the Death
of Jimmie Grimm and Reaches the End of His Rope_ 24

III. _In Which Little Jimmie Grimm Goes Lame and His
Mother Discovers the Whereabouts of a Cure_ 33

IV. _In Which Jimmie Grimm Surprises a Secret, Jim Grimm
makes a Rash Promise, and a Tourist From the States
Discovers the Marks of Tog's Teeth_ 41

V. _In Which Jimmie Grimm Moves to Ruddy Cove and
Settles on the Slope of the Broken Nose, Where, Falling
in With Billy Topsail and Donald North, He Finds the
Latter a Coward, But Learns the Reason, and Scoffs no
Longer. In Which, Also, Donald North Leaps a Breaker to
Save a Salmon Net, and Acquires a Strut_ 49

VI. _In Which, Much to the Delight of Jimmie Grimm and
Billy Topsail, Donald North, Having Perilous Business
On a Pan of Ice After Night, is Cured of Fear, and Once
More Puffs Out His Chest and Struts Like a Rooster_ 61

VII. _In Which Bagg, Imported From the Gutters of London,
Lands At Ruddy Cove From the Mail-Boat, Makes the
Acquaintance of Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, and
Tells Them 'E Wants to Go 'Ome. In Which, Also, the Way
to Catastrophe Is