heard a child crying far out on the mountain at a late hour in the night. She managed to carry this news to some of her neighbors, and a vigorous search was made, but to no purpose. It is supposed to-day that this woman really heard the lost children cry; but by the time the people got to the place the children perhaps had cried themselves to sleep -- so that with the most careful searching they might easily have passed them by in the dark. They were never heard to cry again.
The most remarkable thing connected with the story I am narrating was, that the people never seemed to weary or tire hunting for them. Although every foot of ground where it would seem possible for them to have wandered, had been gone over time and again yet hundreds of people were added to the searchers daily, all united in one common purpose, never to give up the search until they had found them either alive or dead; and after so many days and nights of fruitless search for them, the most hopeful, had but little idea of finding them alive.
Samuel Cox and his wife were opposed to all forms of sorcery, magic, or necromancy. They had no faith in witches or wizards. But some of
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