Selkirk

Lou watched George Selkirk step into the batter's box for a few practice swings one afternoon.

“If you had any guts, Lou, you'd be the one hitting a couple, instead of me,” Selkirk yelled back.

The foresters of Selkirk, as we have seen, had stood by Edward, and apparently had suffered not a little for their fidelity.

The Earl of Selkirk brought out to his property about eight hundred souls.

Two thousand five hundred pounds had been paid by the tenants on the Selkirk estate in the first year after it was purchased.

At last Selkirk died broken in spirit, and most of his colonists drifted to Canada or across the border.

Alexander Selkirk subsequently entered the Royal Navy and became a lieutenant.