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and there 1 enclosed him and ieft him, for T was very impatient te
be at home, from whence JT had been absent above a month.

T cannot express what a satisiaction it was to me to come inte
my old huteh and lie down in my hammock-bed. This little
wandering journey, without settled place of abode, had been so
unpleasant to me, that my own house, as 1 called it to myself, was
a perfect settlement to me compared to that ; and it rendered
everything about me so comlortable that T resolved J would never
vo a eveat way from it again while it should be my lot to stay on
the island.

1 reposed inysell’ here a week, to rest and regale myself alter
my Jong journey ; during which most of the time was taken up in
the weighty affair of making a cage for my poll, which began now
to be a mere
domestic, and to
be aighty well
acquainted with
ine. Uben T be-
van to think of
the poor kid
which Thad
penned in within
iny little cirele,
aud resolved to
vo and fetch it
home or give it
some food.  Ac-
cordingly L went,
and found it
where | left it;
for, indeed, it
could not get
out, but almost
starved for want
of food. I went
and cut boughs

 

ef trees, and “Iv FOLLOWED ME LIKE A DOG.”