The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-12-02
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Z ruls. and tho different kinds - iroes, AL
/ b0w 10 make baufres And little stone oven
and they ooai5 nhooi siih bows add Al
ross. ana swim and climb trees. aud spli
kiadhugs, and take care Of chickens ana
lseks snd turkeys, and Do great man
Jolly aud useful things which city child
ren hardly get chance b DO. Well
~hen once they veDt on visit with som
soupins 10 An aacle's on the oiher side Q
',Big woodsy as they called the ncun.
ain, they did not get home that night.
The uncle thought they had gone home
and the father aud mother thought the!
ssAa rcniained over night at tteir unele's
SO nothing was done about il till noor
sext day. when the uncle came ioggin,
over on horseback TO look st a COW h'
thought Of buying, and the mother Asket
him II Ted aud Kitty were not making to,
long a visit. .ef
Then the uncle said. Good gracious
they are not at our house; they started
tr home last night along with the Elder.
kins think
Thnh the mother turned very pale and
said ia faint voice. They are LOST"
Oh, no, said the uncle, not bit Of Il.
The Elderkins eoaxed EN- home with
them. of eonrse III ride round their
way when ! go back and start EN- home.
But the pale look wouldn't leave the
mothers face, and in short time who
should come but the Elderkins themselves
to spend the afternoon. they said, with
Ted and Kitty Then there was fright
indeed. he father walked down to the
gate. and looked up and down the long
winding mountain road, as il that would
do any good, and tie mother followed him
calling out:
"Oh, john John! where are sur child.
REM"
The uncle rode Off In one direction, and
the father quickly saddled a horse and
rode off in another to inquire at all the
farm houses II anything had been seen OF
Ted and Kitty Curtis. And no one had
seen them. All the Elderkins had 10 say
was that Ted and Kitty bad told them that
there was a nearer way TO reach home than
by following the dusty roundabout road,
and they had run off through the woods to
find it. The Elderkins choose to follow
the road, because they had on their new
lawn, dresses trimmed with torchon, and
didn't want to get all scrambled up by
the briers'
So while the uncle and father and all the
noighbors were hunting up and down the
forest, and the mother was stay ing in the
house, with dear, calm grandma and the
little twin babies to keep her from going
quite crazy, l will tell you what Ted aud
Kitty were doing in the Big Woodsy.
After they had run on way, the bush.
y aud brambles began TO be so thick they
were obliged to drop into walk, and fl
nally to climb and crawl a. best they
might for they never found the nearer
way, and the ground was covered with fall
EN- trees and rocks, while the briers
'aught them sometimes as if they never
meant to let 60
By-and-by the pleasant light of sunset
'egan to fade away, and they sat down to
est on mossy log, and look at each 9th.
II very soberly.
don't know which way We ought to go,
aid Kitty.
No, more don't /, said Ted.
Well, then, We must stay right where
fe are, stead of trying to go on. Cause,
ont you know. lost people go round and
ound and never get anywhere. and just
rear their shoes out, and get tired and
ungry, and nobody ever can find EN-
.ou amt afraid are you, Teddy2
Nool answered Ted, with scornful en-
hasis; course mott Why, it's only just
amping out We've always wanted to
amp out, you know. An it's warm, and
here's bnt'nuts, am meybe we'll find
partridge nest. aud Ted looked around
the deepening shadows, and bravely
linked back the two tears that had gath.
red in bis eyes.
You know there isn't anything in these
oods that can hurt us, said Kitty, cheer.
lily. Papa said there was no use for those
nnters to come here last year, 'causs
iere's nothing biggerp woodchucks any
here round.
But somebody killed a bear here the
INNER | was baby, said Ted
Yes, but he was the last the very last,
ID it's just as nice and safe here as il we's
Imping out in our orchard And let's
( mp house right away, Let's play we
i've gone West aud got some land OF our
yn.
Then the two children went to work.
hey were scared little, in spits Of their
ave talk, but they were soon so interest
in their camp bnilding that they for
Il their fear, First they cleared away
e sticks and stones beside the log where
ey we're sitting. They pulled large
eces Of bark from 4 partly fallen tree,
ID leaned them against the log, making
shelter large enough for very small
aeping room. Over the bark they laid ,
'ughs of butternut aud maple, with long
ieks placed erosswise 10 keep them in
ace. Then by the time they bad gath
ed few Armfuls Of dry leaves TO place
,den.eAsh. il was quite dark and too late .
r any more work
Won't We &c, bugs in our earsg asked
a. peeping into the queer little bed.
en-
Well, vel tle oar hAndkerchiefs over ,
II ears. And veil only take our shoes,
Z cause we're ins, enigrauts. you know. /
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