The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-16

savage whom he had saved. Luckily
 the fight had occurred out of sight of
 the other savages. and after their feast they padded away to sea. without evcu
 searching for their companions. much
 10 Robinson crusoe's grateful surprise. Friday proved to be an apt pupil,
 who learned to call crusoa Master"
 and worshipped him. so that he was
 servant and friend both. Friday told Crusoe that he was a Carib, who had been taken prisoner during war with another Carib tribe. He was surprised at Robinson Crusoe's disgust at canni- baiism and explained ing~nuously thai 1t was the custom of all the tribes to
 eat prisoners captured in war. How ever. Crusoe soon taught him to abhor human flesh.
 Friday informed his master that the 1 great land he had seen once in the west was the island of Trinidad. which | was inhabited by savages like himself. | This news awoke anew his desire 10 escape from his island, delightful though ft had become, and. with Fri. days aid, he succeeded in building boat large enough for such voyage. Before they could start another band of savages landed. Crusoe saw with astonishment that one Of the pris- oners was a white man. Friday and he attacked the cannibais at once and they were so stupefied by the soafad of arearms that they tumbled into theis canoes and fled to sea, leaving their prisoners unharmed.
 While Crusoe united the white man.
 Friday went into frenzy of joy over the other prisoner, who turned out to
 proved to be a spaniard. one of seven- teen others who had been wrecked on tho mainland and lived with Fridays tribc.
 After few days the spaniard and Fridays father set off in the boat to snf the ofher white men ana carry
 them to Crusoe's Island. where they l might build vessel sufficient to carry them ell to Brazil.
 Put Robinson Crusoe was to bs re- furnad 10 the civilized world in raan@ ner more expeditions. 4 few days af- ter the two had departed an Fn@ilHh 1 shin nut Into the island in distress, her crew having mutinied Ev his help .he nnutfneerr --ere beaten. and when | the vessel sailed aTain she carried away him and his man Friday. Rob- | inson CrpRoe had been on the Island
 twrnty-eisht yeras two months and ni-eteen days
 | yil estate had heen administered faith l srIt>- for h,-- Nv his partners In the | rt. .fated Guinea coast enterprise.
 Though they considered him dead. they had decided to hold his property aE it
 he stiii lived and he found himself | rich man.
 1fc visited his island once more after
 some years and found the spaniarda living there in happiness and content. being satisfied 10 stay in land of plenty rather than 10 venture on ths seas again.
 Poor Friday was killed near the Bra~
 ziis. and crusoe sailed around the
 world. meeting with many strange ad- ventures Tn China. Siberia. and Russia.
 but none as strange as those which had
 led to his residence on the desert is-
 iand. At last, having lived fife of in-
 mite variety for seventy-two years. he
 felt that he had learned sufficiently 70 know the value of retirement. ana
 he settled down In England to end hf1 days in peace.
 Next sunday'a one-psse CIassfe win
 he "Captain Fraeasse," by TheephiIe Gnutier.