The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-20
ROY LOST IN The MOUNTAINS
AWAY AFTER 4 SEAL
BROWN RABBIT.
~. ana . Hair DayS IN the woods WIN
NathInE tn Eat Isut via CrAbapples
searching Parties ScOur the woods
Pound Five Miles Prom Home.

II v-rnuHEEPsIE. Sept. I0.-Little Percy
r-,,rp la-t among the big mountains
Il a. ,No day- and half. came home tn
:. rpo't.- and the farm and his own
.,r.r roof to-day az dinner time. Two
4.,. and = half alone In the woods are
..-..s,.,.,- enough. even Ca one who has
...r. .. hts three wears Of life nesting IN
.......|.., below the closest II IN" pillows
.-..,'.-.- that tumble down from th"
,.,,, e Nh" Paving Mountains upon
D.. q. --.u.!-'on. IN one own back yard.
...... alud.r alone IN the wuod- tao
rt.'>-
V...r. Percy was stumbling through the
ia "a SATURDAY. and sunday and
v.r4,v enough OF the sunlight leaked
Ian 'rr,ugh the tree branches at least
q, of him So. th. Wild Crabapples that h"
py..i IN while he was lost. Also the sun
rsht was comforting at any rate and Il
,slred 20 warn him against ahe biggest
,-ea trunks. back Of which tigers and
hing, hide while people who get lost are
Climbing over the rocks nearer and
,.arer 10 the things that jump out all Of
A sudden with scream upon the lost
r.oul. But when the gathering gloom
IN the woods shows that the sun has
.onp down then lost people can't tell
,h,ch are the black bushes that move
and shake suddenly merely because Of
ne NIGHT winds that are beginning TO
whisper in a frightened way. and on the
s'nar hand which are the hairy things
hat lump out % the moving bushes.
The woods grow darker and darker. and
- before lost people sink down from
~-arnass and hunger Ia cry themselves
% slea0 the rocks and the trees and
everything get 80 black that one can't
-. even the biggest bear until tn. teeth
IN IT. vide Jaws are against ones face
AMI - hairy arms are crushing ones
t0u-s in a death grasp.
and - when Percy was carried out Of
Ii. woods Co his mother at noon to-day
b I'D not remember her very well. He
vas sure the little farmhouse in the
woods southeast OF here. near the Con
rar'.cIt line. was not the home he had
wandered away from last Saturday
morning His bare feet and legs were
suoilsn and showed bruises and cuts
tetve~n the splashes Of caked mud and
ire hitS II dead leaves that had fastened
Jpn his skin. Sunken eyes told Of the
.''le boys WEAKNESS and hunger The
q
tear IN hts scalp.
This amt my house. Percy insisted
'nlrkly TO the farm hand. Fred Denton
Vro had found the 10y i've miles from
b. home Even when his mother came
,rying with joyousn"ss and hysteris
,rrnss the fields and clazped him IN her
arms Percy shook ms head sleepily but
With decision.
Tain't our path he lisped between
80 mothers kisses. This amt my
tulse-
AL his SIX brothers and sisters were
vuooping and dancing around beneath
t.rn and his father was holding one Of his
aands as the family brought Percy back
cross the meadows 60 his home again
Bat until the long sleep that began as he .
vas tucked in his crib silenc-d him Percy .
r injured over and over that he had been .
carried along a wrong path 20 a farmhouse
10 had never known i@for..
seal brown rabbit owned 10y Percy
lad caused him 20 wander away The
'abbi' had horned along under the back .
ard apple trees last SATURDAY. morning
y nile Percv's mind was concentrated on .
other matters of great moment When .
Percy looked up from his labOrs the seal .
apple trees bsgln 20 merge with the oaks .
and uhestnuts Of the mountainside
he ran 20 save his rabbit from losing
's.f N the woods. The rabbit paid no
attention TO has shrill commands 10 come
tack nut hoped on nonchalantly toward
'.- distant rail fence up the hillside
Percy Eggs are even longer than the
-1nuits. but the rabbit disappeared und,r
49, fence before Percy could head II back
., me yard He squeezed batwe.n the
nj h.. .stg
Ha did not answer when AZ noon his
~o'u.r called to him To join his brothers
and sisters At the midday dinner The
s''a-uoon wore on and the other children
"r" sent up into the woods to- look for
~ In the late afternoon his father
-'' 're fields 20 Join in the search The
..,''"r"d few neiRhbors heard the far
'1-r VOC" calling up among The trees
an hey came 20 the farmhouse and heard
bat Percy was lost and they went into
o." woods TO look for him.
he farmer COursed the woods and
s'.' r.i ~ intervals 10 call out Percy
tar" bat darkness came and he had heard
p. answer Hs came back to the farm
...-" 'r a lantern and again started up
90. 'i~ mountains. The other children .
V"r" wing when their mother put them
: '-I and they fell asleep listening 10 the
'a "' and fainter calls that came down
1. ''"fr rom the woods.
Wen they were asleep Percy's mother
~ ~ IIl" nhl plhfe"l
''.' - 'h" farmhouse windows with
r"- nat the. little lad might see them
''.- o." mountains All through the
= non she walked in a wide circl"
o. ."- house where the other children
...' a-' tded her calls to the PARKWAY
- ~. still heard coming down
900 omit mountains.
anne and the mothers calls
'..' .. MY sounds that broke the
%" other seArchers now were
-dss Of tho wooded hills
the woman made longer
- 80 ~ = toward the abandoned iron !
'i-h' a"ar Pears Pond The pond itself
ana ~" b ~ holes that 60 sheer lnbo the
..i.- mad" 'h" walking dangerous for
i"frF- n..'1nr. but they were doubly .
'.aL s"f.'.s for Three ysar-old Percy. and .
." D. cher found the mine holes and
la."i a~-oss dynamite Valley many
p o. '.l.y @''."s carne back TO her.
f'''-H. her husband. came out Of the =
"'- sunday morning hut without =
Ia" Dtt"- 90 .Ir"n long before h
... .ai started ~ t.T1ugh the forests L
.. p" too" 1.p 'h'. search In the fore 9
ne Q FfF4H F.Hs H.