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 ADVENTURES OF

ROBINSON CRUSOE. CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.

Robinson Crusoe was the youngest son of a respect able broker in the city of York. His parents took great pains with his education, and not only sent him to the best schools in York, but supplied him with entertain ing and instructive books to read at home; and as his brothers were all much older than himself, and there were no playmates for him in the family, he became more studious than most boys of his age.

He loved to

hear grown persons talk, and was the constant compan ion of his father when business called him from home.

Mr. Crusoe took pleasure in answering his little son's numerous questions as to how things were made ; he often took him to see the different tradesmen at their work and explain to him what they were doing ; and

as Robinson was not one of those giddy children who like to see every thing but never examine any thing at tentively, he learned to understand the common arts of life pretty well.

His father gave him a set of carpenter's tools and a little room for a workshop, and when he was nine years