Barty Crusoe and his man Saturday . know what they are, butI daresay they are very important, Ibelieve he has gone to do something forme which he knows is his duty. The Good Wolf stopped scratching hisear with his hind foot and became as cheer-ful as Barty. Of course! he exclaimed are a very clever boy to think ofthat. You always think of the rightthings at the right time, instead of thinkingof the right things at the wrong time orthe wrong things at the right time, whichis very confusing. ^ shall we go outside and see if he isanywhere about? said Barty. That is a good idea, t
Barty Crusoe and his man Saturday . know what they are, butI daresay they are very important, Ibelieve he has gone to do something forme which he knows is his duty. The Good Wolf stopped scratching hisear with his hind foot and became as cheer-ful as Barty. Of course! he exclaimed are a very clever boy to think ofthat. You always think of the rightthings at the right time, instead of thinkingof the right things at the wrong time orthe wrong things at the right time, whichis very confusing. ^ shall we go outside and see if he isanywhere about? said Barty. That is a good idea, too, respondedthe Good Wolf. You are full of goodideas, and they are the most useful thingsa person can have on a desert island. They walked down the cave—it wasrather a long cave—towards the narrowpassage which led from the hole outside towhich Saturday had led Barty. As theycame to the entrance to it they both drewback to look at something very queerwhich was coming towards them throughthe passage itself. It certainly was the. queerest thing Barty had ever beheld sincehe had been a boy, and the Good Wolfhimself looked as if it seemed a queerthing even to him. It would have seemedqueer to you, too. What it really wasBarty could not possibly have told, butwhat it looked like was a bundle of driedleaves bound together by long grass andwalking over the ground by itself as if itwere alive. It is walking, isnt it? asked Barty,too much astonished to be sure his eyesdid not deceive him. It certainly is, the Good Wolf re-
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