lost ones, others on foot and on horse, traveled from house to house, and from one village to another, carrying the news. Every one that heard it seemed at once to comprehend the situation, that whatever was done to find them must be done quickly or they would not likely be found at all. With this kindred feeling in the minds of nearly all who heard the tidings it is not at all strange that plowman unhitched their teams midway in the fields, merchants closed their stores, mechanics threw down their tools with their work unfinished, and all, with one common purpose, hastened to the mountain, and notwithstanding the day was far spent before many of them heard the news, yet so quick were the people in their efforts to rescue the little perishing ones, that not less than two hundred voices rang along the crags and cliffs of the Allegheny ere the sun had set on that day. So thorough was the search that every plane, hill top and ravine within a reasonable distance of their home had been carefully gone over before dark without finding even a foot print of the lost children. And what alarmed the parents still more was, that as night approached it was fast growing cold, dark heavy
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