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Copyright, 1918,
By CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS.
Copyright, 1919,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

All rights reserved—no part of this
book may be reproduced in any form
without permission in writing from
the publisher.

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1919.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

Jim, the Story of a Backwoods Police Dog 7

I. How Woolly Billy Came to Brine’s Rip 9

II. The Book Agent and the Buckskin Belt 32

III. The Hole in the Tree 65

IV. The Trail of the Bear 91

V. The Fire at Brine’s Rip Mills 115

VI. The Man with the Dancing Bear 135

The Eagle 157

The Mule 179

Stripes the Unconcerned 199

JIM: THE STORY OF A BACKWOODS POLICE DOG

I. HOW WOOLLY BILLY CAME TO BRINE’S RIP

I

Jim’s mother was a big cross-bred bitch,half Newfoundland and half bloodhound,belonging to Black Saunders, one of the handsat the Brine’s Rip Mills. As the mills werealways busy, Saunders was always busy, andit was no place for a dog to be around, amongthe screeching saws, the thumping, wet logs,and the spurting sawdust. So the big bitch,with fiery energy thrilling her veins andsinews and the restraint of a master’s handseldom exercised upon her, practically ranwild.

Hunting on her own account in the deepwilderness which surrounded Brine’s RipSettlement, she became a deadly menace toevery wild thing less formidable than a bear10or a bull moose, till at last, in the early primeof her adventurous career, she was shot by anangry game warden for her depredationsa

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