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Savage1 sports--Living cataracts--An alarm--Indians and theirdoings--The stampede--Charlie again.
One day Dick Varley was out on a solitary3 huntingexpedition near the rocky gorge4 where his horsehad received temporary burial a week or two before.
Crusoe was with him, of course. Dick had tied Charlieto a tree, and was sunning himself on the edge of a cliff,from the top of which he had a fine view of the valleyand the rugged5 precipices7 that hemmed8 it in.
Just in front of the spot on which he sat, the precipiceson the opposite side of the gorge rose to a considerableheight above him, so that their ragged9 outlines weredrawn sharply across the clear sky. Dick was gazingin dreamy silence at the jutting10 rocks and dark caverns,and speculating on the probable number of bears thatdwelt there, when a slight degree of restlessness on thepart of Crusoe attracted him.
"What is't, pup?" said he, laying his hand on thedog's broad back.
Crusoe looked the answer, "I don't know, Dick, butit's something, you may depend upon it, else I wouldnot have disturbed you."Dick lifted his rifle from the ground, and laid it inthe hollow of his left arm.
"There must be something in the wind," remarked Dick.
As wind is known to be composed of two distinctgases, Crusoe felt perfectly11 safe in replying "Yes" withhis tail. Immediately after he added, "Hallo! did youhear that?" with his ears.
Dick did hear it, and sprang hastily to his feet, asa sound like, yet unlike, distant thunder came faintlydown upon the breeze. In a few seconds the soundincreased to a roar in which was
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animated
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