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was permitted I noticed that he sat
during the entire service in n belligerent
latitude, breathing defiance. The re-
ligious exercises, simple and majestic III
their homely setting, entirely failed to
reach down the current Of his youthful
life. His imaginary contest with the
worshippers completely absorbed him.
Another Of Salsify's explorations con-
sisted in seeing how near he could get
to the hut of the Alaska-saple-
With this object in view, he wandered
off alone, intending to make his way
through the woods in n direct line to
the locality. He was absent all day, and
returned from "somewhere down toward
Canada, having gone astrny. Coming
out on road, he paid n man who knew
the country dollar and half to bring
him home, where he arrived after night
fall
part of Satisfy that led him and all of us
to take so deep an interest in the boy
who was lost near the Blue Mountain.
from where we are located. The news
that boy was lost in the woods up there
spread very rapidly The huckleberry.
visited every year by farmers from n
distance, who come with their families
and camp in the wild section and pick
berries and make holiday time Of it.
The boy who was lost, Andrew Garfield
by name, was in one of these camps.
He went out toward evening to hunt
cartridges, and did not come back. His
parents and the camps were, of course,
alarmed Ms it grew dark and Andrew did
not return. Quite disturbance was
made, and good many people were said
to have gone to the place the next day
The second day after Andrew disap-
peared, my brother Edward and Satisfy
and went to the scene. Edward drove
his team, taking us with him in rough
lumber-wagon. The twenty miles of
road we travelled was smooth and hard,
and the bright air and mountain land
scapes were n perpetual enjoyment.
About an hour before noon we reached
the huckleberry- plains. We found a
dozen little tents clustered together
there, and there were twenty or thirty
teams and nearly hundred people. 1t
was on the bank of the st. Regis River.
There was fine view of the mountain,
and miles and miles of woods stretching
away in every direction.
The story about the lost boy was that
he having gone after the cartridges and
not returning, dozen men had gone
into the woods that same night, making
more or less noise, and trying to call
loud enough for the boy to hear them.
But they could do nothing. The tall
raw oned man, with red hair, who an
swered our questions, said they might as
well have tried to walk right through q
mountain Of tar MS to ge through "then
woods" that night.
On the following morning four parties
of men, with guns, had gone into the
woods in four different directions and
commenced firing the guns. There was
one solitary report of gun heard, APP
parenty in reply, far off up the river
but after that no response. AS they
could not find the boy, two surveyors
had been sent for, and in the afternoon
of the day after the boy was lost the
surveyors arrived. They were familiar
with the entire region. They said that
the boy was probably wandering Off NJ
the river, and that the single report of |,
gun which had been heard in reply was
from his gun. They took party Of foul
men, with provisions, and Immediately
plunged into the woods.
When we arrived upon the scene, the
boy had been out one day and two nights
about forty hours), and the surveyors
had been nearly twenty-four hours in the
woods We pitched the little tent We
had brought tied our horses to the back
end of the wagon, where they could feed
from the wagonbox, and then made our
selves at home among the huckleberry'
pickers and those who were waiting to
hear from the lost boy.
In the evening it was pleasant at the
camps. Fires were built in front Of
some of the tents, md the men, gath
ering round them, chatted, and few
sung songs. Some of the old times OF
the Potomac They said camping revived
memories of their days in the army.
About an hour after dark there wa'
an exciting incident. The report Of {
rifle was heard quarter of mile away
in the bush. 1t was replied TO by sew
eral of the men at the camps by dis
charging guns and by loud calls. A
few minutes later two men came out o.
the woods, saying that they had fel
their way in the intense blackness fol
two hours, having almost reached the
camps before dark. They were two O
the men who had gone out with the
surveyors. As the people gathered rount
them and listened with breathless inter
est, they explained that the surveyor,
had come upon the track of the boy and
were following it up the river in line
parallel with the stream and about two
miles distant from it. They had FOLLOWED
the track about six miles when the two
men were sent back with the news
The men said they saw where the boy
had picked blueberries, and that there
was no doubt that it was the track o.
Andrew, the lost boy.
At this point in the narrative little
shrek was heard, and attention wal
drawn to he shrieker. She was a com
pact little woman, with light hair anu 1
neat blue calico dress. She was An
drew's mother. She was soothed by thu
other women. Her husband said, ''Don'
cry, Jane maybe he amt dead after
ALL"
, After j ane and her husband had gon'
away to their tent, there was some dis
cussion in regard to the probability o
the boy being found alive. The red
haired man thought it would be possible
to find him alive. This man seemed t.
be an excitable individual. He declared
that he would not sleep wink that night
because he would be thinking all tn
while about the boy.
. The two men who had brought tn
intelligence said the surveyors had sen
out word that the boy would very likel.
get to the bank of the river in his wan
dering, and they thought if he did he
would be likely to keep along by thu
side of it. They wished, therefore tina
, some of the men would take II boat an'
go up the st. Regis River dozen milel
or more, searching and calling as the.
: went. They thought it possible that tn
, boy might be found in that way.
BY midnight all had been said tina
could we'll be suggested, and the com
pany around the fires dropped away t.
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