Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-12

in his turn, started to hunt those
who had been hunting for him: He
soon spied his mother and maybe you
can imagine how glad they were to
see each other.
The rest is briefly told. Arthur kept
close to the party and soon they were
on the Los Angeles bound car, listening
to the story of Arthur's adventure.
HELEN M. FERGUSON.
S246 Emmett street; Los Angeles high,
grade 40; age IA.
Nov, don't get worried. Mrs. Jelliff,"
spoke up one of the mothers; you'll
find him all right"
"Oh, we must telegraph to the ship
and search over Redondo and look
everywhere for him!" cried Mrs. Jel-
lift.
People all> over were hunting
through stores, along the beach, over
the rocks and everywhere that boy
would probably be found, but no Ar
thur was there.
His mother was nearly crazy with
anxiety and excitement. All the party
were searching yigilantly for Arthur.
They soon found out that Arthur
was not on the lumber boat, and then
all sorts of mishaps began to rise in
their minds. Maybe he fell overheard.
Maybe he was run over. Maybe all
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Finally his mother tainted from the
strain and when revived had to be
taken home Immediately, as her nerves
were all unstrung. When she arrived
home, what joy she felt to see her son
sitting on the porch contentedly play
ing with his big shaggy Newfoundland
dog.
When his story was learned it was
found he had got on an electric car
that was sidetracked and fallen asleep.
When he awoke he found himself in
Los Angeles. He had scrambled off
and gone home, not thinking of the
excitement that might follow
FLOSSIE GERMAN.
COS 81 Sycamore street, First street
school, grade sA, Santa Ana.
Arthur had tired of following the
crowd and, seeing a rowboat with
fishing tackle in it, he made oiVe
for it.
He was so interested pulling the nets
about that he did not notice that he
was adrift. He had pulled the rope
loose.
He had just discovered reel and
was just going to investigate further
when he was startled by the voice of a
fisherman. This fisherman landed him
on land safely. but as soon as he was
safe he saw a dog carrying pocket
book. He Immediately started after the
dog to see what he was going to DO
with it. and in doing so just missed
his mother around the corner AS Ar
thur turned a corner he was running
SO fast he knocked a lady down, and
commenced crying because the dog got
away from him, but the lady thought
he was crying because he had knocked
her down, so she gave him some money
to comfort him.
Soon after this he decided it was time
to go to the station. When he arrived
there he saw his party had gone, so he
took the first car, which happened to
be for Venice.
The conductor thought he was pretty
small to be travelling alone. so he asked
questions, and found out he wanted to
go to Los Angeles instead of Venice.
He put him on the right car and tele-
phoned to his mother that he was safe.
HELEN G. MACE.
Long Beach high school, grade B9;
r. D. No. l. box Bose.
In the meantime Arthur was quietly
fishing After he and his companions
had visited the lumber vessel he sep
arated from them and went fishing
'just to try his luck" as he said after
ward.
Arthur chose a place to fish which
couldn't be seen from the upper part
of the wharf, and all the time while
the rest of the party were hunting for
him he sat there fishing, seeming just
as unconcerned as could be. They
were but few feet above him at
times, but he didn't know it.
All of a sudden he remembered the
rest of the party, and, jumping up, he
let his rented fish line fall into the
water while he ran like a cyclone to
the station.
When he arrived there the car with
the Herald Juniors on board had just
pulled out and poor, bewildered Arthur
was left in all his lonesome.
He took the next car for Los An
geles and arrived home safely.
ARTHUR MOBILES.
824 East Twenty-seventh street.
Twenty eighth street school, grade BS,
age 13.
When Arthur ran away from his
mother one of the men on the ship
saw him and exclaimed, Now we got
him!"