Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-29

tne Wlnd. The sshOuSe" was not largo
enough to hold Theodore, too, and SO
he made his bed upon q stone Just out
side. Down came the rain, while the
thunder drew nearer and nearer, till the
forest seemed one vast crash and roar.
Through the dark trees the children saw
the lightning darting and dancing over
the sky. Arminda .sobbed and trembled;
but Theodore comforted her by telling
heriapst to be frightened, ..for he was
thM with her.6 Perhaps even his
stSl little heart would have quailed had
nezfDt been sustained by his pride in his
afshat's goin' to hurt us here?:" he
shd1fed, proudly, amid the tumult of
sound: II like to be out in the rain"
81 like to get wet, too," Arminda an
sW1Eed, weakly. 'It makes my skeeter-
The lightning by degrees grew fainter
and the thunder farther away; but all
night long the wind and rain kept on
together. The children chung to each
other and whispered that they were not
Morning came at last, but still the
tempest ragged. Theodore looked rue
fully about him when he arose, and re-
sorted Immediately for comfort to the
pail OF berries he had wisely sheltered.
I'm getting sick of this" he remarked
to Arminda. ''We must get home to-
day"
But alas for such hopes! The whole
day was spent in patient but fruitless
ploddingg owe the wet leaves, with the
rai1rdtin falling, and that night they
hadssttp seek their rest upo a huge,
slo stone under the projecting
b~ougnsHof q thick-leaved tree-since
that was the driest bed that they could
find.
By this time, you may be sure, they
were in a sorry plight. Their hands and
heads fairly ached from the bites of
swarming mosquitoes; they were
scratched and bruised by their scram-
bles through the tangle of the under
brush; and though thew MANAGED to
keep their pals filled with berries, they
were becoming very hungry for some
more satisfying food. Arminda was
now too foot-sore to walk more than a
few steps at a time, and Theodore had
to carry her. Their clothes had become
so soaked that they were a heavy bur-
den; even Theodore was too weary to
tramp very far in a day; and poor little
Arminda was almost sick with fatigue
and hunger.
On the next day, however, they came
upon a brook and began to follow it as
Theodore had planned, and made what
progress they could. Tie windhad died
down, and, ave for the "drip, drip,
of the drenched trees, the great
storm was over. 1t left the lit
tie wanderers pitiably weak and
sore, but still brave and hopeful. and
they kept on their way along the bank
of the brook, until, in the afternoon of
Friday, they reached, as we have seen,
the edge of the larger stream. Content
with this triumph Of his new plan, The
odore prepared the little couch of leaves
for his sister to rest upon, as already de-
scribed, and sat down on the log beside
her. lAnd when she dropped as1eepfrom
WEAKNESS, he began to wonder how long
it would take them to get home by fol-
lowing the river shore, and whether his
poor little sister would have strength
to stand the journey. OF he to carry
her.
But a speedier deliverance was even
then at hand. 1t was on that day that
the great woods re-echoed in all direc-
tions with the calls and shouts of thir-
teen hundred men; yet none of their
loud halloos had reached Theodore, as
he sat upon the log that afternoon, all
unconscious that he and his sister were
the objects of such a great expedition.
Indeed, it was late in the day, and the
army had really failed like the other
smaller searching parties, having passed
beyond or far to the side of the spot
where the children were nov resting;
and yet it had not failed either, @ you
shall see. 1t SO happened that four men
belonging to the searching regiment
Jagged behind their companions, and,
failing to catch up with them, went
straying hither and thither, forgetting
the children entirely in their desire to
rejoin their fellows. But being miners,
and having little knowledge of wood
craft, they soon found themselves hope
lessly bewildered, and had to confess
that, instead of finding the lost children,
they were in the unpleasant predica-
ment of being themselves lost in the
woods.
1t can not. be said that, considering
how much older they were, they bore
this discovery with any better courage
than the children had shown. But all
they could do was to keep up a constant
halloo, in the hope that some of the re-
turning parties would hear them. This,
therefore, they set about doing as Justify
as possible, but for a long time without
reply. At last, however, as they stood
silent, listening after one of their loud
calls, one of the men said: "Hark!
What was thatp" Faint and weak
through the far distance came an an
swering .'Halloo-oo" They moved
over in the direction whence it came
and again repeated their call, and
stopped to listen. Again it was an
swered, more clearly this time, but on
the instant one of the men said, breath
lessly: .'That is a boys voice!"
They ran forward quickly, and before
long came in sight of the boy himself,
and n of the party shouted to him:
.'Who are you?" !.
II am Theodore Lorre," was the an
swer.
"Where do you liveP" ,
cat Allouez."
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