Nelson Family Juvenilia
Box 1 Folder 4
American Family Robinson Vol. 2 - n.d.

The American Family Robinso [header on each page]
The American Family Robinson
The Hyena the Sawmill

One day Jimmy went on his sail boat to the wreck intending to bring back something when he got there he loaded his sail boat and in the things was a saw ment for a cross cut saw but when Jimmy got to land he unloaded and he and Alice and Fred went to Shark River and in a few days Jimmy got his dam built and then he fixed a [canay?] and [eited?] out a place for a saw mill then he cut some trees and and [sic] built the loor bard [floor board?] ready to put on the boards [page break]

then Jimmy took the scooner around to the wreck and tore off some boards to make the floor then he fixed him a water water [sic] wheel and in a few days he set up he saw and sawed enough boards to cover over his saw mill then he sawed some boards and built a house on Pine Apple Hill

while Jimmy was building the house Fred would go out and hunt one dime Fred brot back a pigeon and they had it for dinner then when they had got their house built they went to Wonder Cave [page break] then they took their tent and camped beside the saw mill

one day Jimmy heard a noise and looking around saw a hyena Jimmy grabbed up a club and struck it again and again till his club broke then the hyena knocked him to the floor Jimmy manadeg [managed] to get a nother club and got up the hyena come for him and he struck it once and run round the saw the hyena went to run around to and it got against the saw and killed it just as the saw cut it the hyena bit the saw and had part of his head cut off then Alice hearing the noise run up to the saw mill [page break] and found the saw had killed the hyena

she said they saw some thing and Fred and her self run into the tent and then it began smelling around and then went of then we lifted up the side of out tent and looked out and and [sic] saw that it was gone then Jimmy proposed going on a voyage to see if they could find another island the next day so they went back to Wonder Cave to get ready [page break]

Chap 2
Alligator Island

So the next day they took the schooner and started then they went for quite a while at last they saw a island in the distant when they got nearer they saw a large fish they after a while saw it was a alligator the allegator was laying on the sand twas sand for a good wase they named that island Alligator Island they went on land and ate breakfast then they wanted to find out how big the island was [?] soon they came to a point with lots of cane trees on it of which fish poles are made of [page break] Jimmy cut a number for fish poles they named this point Cape Cane Alice said this was the best name

then Alice saw a pigeon she fired and killed it then twas dinner and so ate it wright there then on they started then Fred saw a cave and was going to run into it when out rushed two black bears how Fred yealed the bears came for them and Jimmy fired and Alice fired but they didnt [page break] foll [fall] then Jimmy rushed for one and Alice for the other Alice had a hatchet and Jimmy had a knife they were both knocked down and their clothes torn some but they ganed three feet and Alice kill[ed] hers then she said Jimmy run so Jimmy run up on a big rock and fired and killed his then Fred looked in the cave and saw some baby bears but Jimmy said that he could not take them for when they were big they would be fierce then Jimmy skinned the two biggest bears and by that time it was super time so they ate super and went to bed in their tent which they had brought with [page break] them

in the morning they kept on around the island soon they came to trees with peachensg [sic] on them Fred wanted one so bad as to take one of the cane poles and knock one down then he went to eating it and fast as he could then Alice and Jimmy did the same and then Alice got breakfeast and to top of[f] with they had peaches how good they tasted and Fred eat so many that Jimmy tolt him that he hadnt better [page break]

Chapt 3
The Water Melons

After the break fast they started on about noon they got back to the schooner Jimmy said it was just about a mile long and a half a mile wide then they started to go through the middle when they had got about to the middle when they came to lots of vines and Alice said they were water melons they ate two and thought they were awful good and they were whopers they were as mutch as two feet long then about dinner they returned to the scooner and ate dinner then they put up the sails and started [page break] for shore

when they got most to the whorfing a great head rose above the water and came toards them they boath fired and it went under pretty soon the frunt of their boat rose up and then went on to the water with a thump then Jimmy turned the boat a little and they land[e]d and went to Wonder Cave and ate super they pland the next day to go to the wreck [page break] and get every thing that they coold [could] find

so the next day they started they got nails fishhoks and lines guns and pistols bolts hinges and every thing then they sailed back and started to unload when there was an awful growl Jimmy grabbed a gun and looked around he saw Fred running with all his might and Ali[ce] on about a rod behind him Jimmy said run one side then Jimmy fired then the lion came at Jimmy and Alice fired a pistol with a jump it sprang at Jimmy and Jimmy was k[n]ocked down and biten Jimmy struck it with knife and so did Fred and Alice [page break] stick their knees in to it and killed it Jimmy couldnt lift its head but after a while Jimmy skinned it and then unloaded the schooner and carried the things to Wonder Cave then they ate breakfast Fred had learned the monkey to pick up things and bring to him and Fred made the monkey pick up a peach and bring to him [page break]

Chap 4
The Death of the Ostrich

After breakfast Jimmy started for the wreck he thought the other time he could take them awl but he found he could not so this time he got a number of barrals of powder and other stuff then he saw the captains door that went in to his room and so Jimmy opened it and saw a great bookrack all full of books so he took those and everything and started off

when Jimmy got home and unloaded Fred set right down and began to read for Jimmy and Alice had learned Fred to read then Jimmy said it seamed [page break] just like home then Fred went out dores and soon came in and said that the ostrich had died so Jimmy buried it then Jimmy asted [asked] Fred if he say some thing oh yes said Fred

The ostrich died
Be caws it was old
He was wearth
To us more than gold
We wish for
Him
And his tall neck
So pretty and so trim

Well dome [done] said Jimmy

then Jimmy took a piece of blue chock and rote it on the side of Wonder Cave then they at[e] dinner then after dinner Jimmy started for the saw mill he sawed some timber and and [sic] some boards so as to make a bridge that took him till [page break] super time they at super time then after super time he said he was going to wright every thing they done through through [sic] the days

in the morning Jimmy took the schooner and loaded it with [timber/beams] and boards to build a bridge then he went to Shark River and and [sic] stuch two beames down to the bottom of Shark River and put some boards on them then he stuch in five more then twas beak fas [breakfast] and Jimmy went [page break] back to Wonder Cave and ate break fast then Jimmy started out it took him till noon to get it done then he had Alice and Fred come down and see it Fred run out to the middle and bated a hook and began fishing pretty soon he shoted Papa Mama come and help me pull this in so they helped him pull it in and twas a great trout then they carried it to Wonder Cave and cooked it for dinner [page break]

Chap 5
Shark Island

After dinner they went to Orange Hill and got some oranges then to Sugar Cane Hill and got some sugarcane and then they went to Pine Apple Hill and got some pine apples by the time they wreached Wonder Cave twas super time so they ate super and went to bed

the next day was Freds thirteenth birthday so Jimmy gave him a gun and they that day was going to se[e] if they could find any body so they took the shooner and loaded it with things to eat and guns [page break] and a barrel of powder then they started about noon they saw an island and landed it was sand for a good wase but th[ere?] twas a dense wood they went into it and went down in a sort of valleys and on lots of trees there was some big pears then they knock of[f] some pears and had [breakfast?] then Alice said lets call this Pear Valley

then they started around on the island and found laying on the sand a [shark?] when they came up to it a lot of birds flew awey Fred wanted to shoot one but Jimmy told him he had not better better not [page break] then they started into the woods

pretty soon they came to a pond with coco nut trees all around Jimmy made a bark canoe and went out on it now the pond shone and the fish jumped out of the pond and tumbled back again then pretty soon they went to land and got some cocoa nuts and Fred got a hole with his jiack knife and began sucking one after he had got the milk all sucked out he smashed the shell [page break] and ate the meat then they crosed on the boat and started on

all at once some thing jumped up Fred fired and the animal fell it looked like a deer mouse only was lots and lots bigger twas as tall as Fred was it had along tail and long ears and went [?] jumps its frunt legs were short and it hind legs were long at last Jimmy said it was he thought a kangaroo by the tescriptions of the histry they found in the library then they went back to the schooner and started for land Fred thought it was fun to eat dinner on the schooner they wreached land at last and went to Wonder Cave [page break]

Chap 6
The Lemons the Grapes

Then Alice went to work to fix up things and by the time she had got thad done twas suppertime and they ate super and went to bed in the morning they got up and Jimmy said let go all around this island and across it and every whare so they started

pretty soon they came on to a sort of plane and saw a heard of buffaloes they dashed back behind a rock but not quick enough the buffaloes saw them they all came after them Jimmy and Alice and Fred climbed up on a big rock and began fireing the buffaloes dashed against the rock then they didnt know when they could [page break] get down pretty soon the buffaloes went away and they got down they had killed five buffaloes and wounded a number of others

they went on and came to a lot of lemons trees and took some lemons how yellow and good they looked and for a good wase there was lemons they named that woods Lemon Woods then they pitched their tent becaws twas so hot and ate break fast how good it tasted they thought it tasted good or they wouldnd have eaten so mutch then they started on [page break]

al at once as they were pasing through something came pounce down on Jimmys back and began biting they all struch at it with their knives and so did Jimmy then Jimmy fell with the jaguar on him then began a struggle nives shone in the sun and so did white teath and ugly fight but at last they killed the jaguar it was of the biggest kind with great eyes and as fie[r]ce most as a tiger then they moved on Jimmy [page break] had fared the worst but they got along

oh cried Fred hear is some grapes and Fred got a big bunch and brought to Jimmy then they got lots more and in a few days returned to Wonder Cave and lived there peacefly
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