The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-05

NOT bit like the ghost of a boy which
had been fetched to Barnstead in the
early spring. AS he rode home from
the mill at his fathers elbow. he laugh
ed and chartered like maybe.
He was not disrayed when no well
coming squeal came TO him. odd Pink
ey wants to pay me for ieavin' him
he's hid down under the sweetapple
| tree, he said to his father as he scram-
! bled out of the buggy. You ought to
see him lie down over the apples he
just can't eat As if l wanted EN-
when | an climb TIE tree and shake 'em
down.
! But Mister Pinkey was not under the
| Sweetapple tree. nor in the shade. of the
pokeberry bushes beside the potato
patch; neither was he snug in the
watering trough. nor luXuriously bed
/ Teddy whistled and called his lOudest,
/ but nothing came. Even BcatriX felt
sorry as she heard him. They had all
agreed TO make it case of mysterious
disappearance-at least until Christmas
and then Teddy should be told: more, he
should have 'hree bright new dollars,
which Farmer insolvency said were
jest three dollars more'n that p'isen
pig was wuth.''
Beatrix was for calling Teddy. but
her mother said: Let him run himself
dead tired hunting-then he will go to
sleep at once-and. maybe, partly for
get before morning" SO Teddy ran I'M
Mister Pinkey is good LOST"
twixt the orchard and the big woods.
and clambered sorrowfully over it. Il
wouldn't do you this way old Pinkey,"
he said, with catch in his throat: mot
even if you had gone and left me lit
tie bit of a while. | wouldn't go get
myself lost out in the woods and most
kill little boy to find me. But | will
find you-so there. now. If 1 had
thought you'd behaved so badly l never
would have taught you 20 climb the
fence"
He dropped down himself and ran
little way out in the woods. Tracks
and fresh rooted ground convinced him
that he was following Mister Pinkey.
The tracks ran deeper in the woods.
He ran along them. expecting every
minute 10 come upon his fat and lazy
stray. Once or twice he. called. bat af-
ter lit.ie. decided it would be better
fun TO sur rise his. vagrant.
By and-by it began to be dark. Teddy
looked about him in sudden fright. He
was out of sight of honle-out of sight
of every5aing. it seemed to him. except
tall black tree trunks, with heavy
boughs at top. and little patches of pale
SKY IN between. he turned DeN1lueTeu-
ly about and tried to go home. The first
tear wellei from his eye. 81 amt so
real 'fraid." lie said. starting at the
sound of his own voice. but o, to think
Mister Pinkey is good LOST"
Darkness brought panic To Barn
s=ead. As quickly as possible Mr.. Law
ton gathered his neighbors AID began.
a systematic search for his boy. In
stinctively it was felt ne was in the big
woods. Cantamounts were there also
and potential bears. More than that
it was blowing up very cold. There
would certainly be frost. and perhaps.
Snow. before morning. So ii might be
matter of life and death TO find him,
and find him quickly.
The big woods divided into wing-like
parts. In threes. each with a lighted
torch. the searchers beat through the
nearer one. seeking. seeking ana never
finding. 1t was near midnight when
they turned into the second wing,
which ra2 above the valley farms. All
felt the quest hopeless. but were none
the less bent on making 1t. They had 1