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CHAPTER IV. The Superstitious Hunters and the Witch.      Up to this time the search for the children had been kept up in a systematic way. Some one well acquainted with the mountain, was appointed each day as a leader or captain. He would arrange or align the people at such a distance from each other that they would be able to scan every foot of ground within their line of march. Every fallen tree was to be examined and around the base of every rock and the mountain streams also were to be searched, as many believed they had fallen into some of them and were drowned. And while the great mass of the people took a different course on the mountain each day, some would travel over the ground already gone over, supposing that the children in their wanderings might have gotten back to that part of the forest so carefully searched before.      Some five or six nights after the children were lost a woman by the name of Bentamer, living near the foot of the mountain, distinctly

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