he would go out and shoot the squirrel. Hastily finishing his meal he shouldered his gun and started out in the woods in the direction of his dog, leaving his two little boys at the table with their mother. Failing to find the squirrel he shortly returned to his cabin by a different route from that he had taken in going out. Not seeing the children, he inquired of their mother where they were. She had not noticed them after they had gone out from breakfast. As there was but little cleared land about their cabin it did not require long to determine that they must have undertaken to follow their father to the forest. The parents in the wildest alarm ran to the mountain, and taking in as much of it as they thought it possible for their children to have reached in so short a time, they made the most careful search without finding them. Then they returned to their home thinking the children might have come back to their cabin during their absence but in this they were sadly disappointed. The parents, now almost distracted, made the fact known to their nearest neighbors that their children were lost in the wilds of the mountains. The news spread like wild-fire, and while many hastened to the mountain to help search for the
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