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JIM
THE STORY OF A BACKWOODS
POLICE DOG
BY
MAJOR CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
_New York_
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1931
Copyright, 1918,
By CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS.
Copyright, 1919,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
All rights reserved—no part of this
book may be reproduced in any form
without permission in writing from
the publisher.
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1919.
_Norwood Press_
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Jim, the Story of a Backwoods Police Dog 7
I. How Woolly Billy Came to Brine’s Rip 9
II. The Book Agent and the Buckskin Belt 32
III. The Hole in the Tree 65
IV. The Trail of the Bear 91
V. The Fire at Brine’s Rip Mills 115
VI. The Man with the Dancing Bear 135
The Eagle 157
The Mule 179
Stripes the Unconcerned 199