A BOY CRUSOE

CONTENTS.

Chapter.

1. Early Life; Off for a Voyage

2. Heavy Weather; the Sargasso Sea

3. A Terrible Storm; Leaving the Ship

4. Cast Up by the Sea on a Tropical Island

5. Strange Surroundings; Building a House

6. The Stockade; a Crusoe's Life

7. A Cocoanut Calendar; Food Supply

8. Thoughts of the Future; Making a Bow-Gun

9. Starts to Explore the Island; Turtles' Eggs

10. In the Folds of a Snake

11. The Mountain Cave; a Beacon; Attack by Pigs

12. Return to the Coast; a Mangrove Swamp; Fever

13. A Feathered Companion; Making a Fish Trap

14. Another Exploring Trip; Tropical Fruits

15. A Hurricane and a Ship-Wreck

16. Pleasant Companions; Enlarging the House

17. Building a Raft; Visits to the Wreck

18. The March Continued; Arrival on the Mountain

19. An Ancient Ruin; Wonderful Discovery

20. "The Golden Treasure;" Its Removal

21. Preparing for Departure; Death of the Monster

22. Boat-Building; A Startling Sound

23. Rescue at Hand; Leaving the Island

A BOY CRUSOE

CHAPTER I.

Early Life; Off for a Voyage.

I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. In the winter it was work in the woods, cutting up the year's supply of fire-wood; and then, before the spring ploughing time, my brother and myself found pleasant labor and recreation combined in the maple woods, tapping the trees, gathering the sap and tending the fire under