II. DAVID'S VISITORS
III. AN OFFER OF PARTNERSHIP
IV. MORE BAD NEWS
V. DAN IS ASTONISHED
VI. BRUIN'S ISLAND
VII. WHAT HAPPENED THERE
VIII. DOGS IN THE MANGER
IX. NATURAL HISTORY
X. A BEAR HUNT
XI. TRAPPING QUAILS
XII. WHERE THE POINTER WAS
XIII. TEN DOLLARS REWARD
XIV. SOME DISCOVERIES
XV. BOB'S ASPIRATIONS
XVI. DON'S HOUNDS TREE SOMETHING
XVII. CONCLUSION




CHAPTER I.

A GLANCE AT THE PAST.


"Don't worry about it, mother. It is nothing we can help."

"It seems to me that I might have helped it. If I had gone to General
Gordon when your father first spoke about that barrel with the eighty
thousand dollars in it, and told him the whole story, things might