Lost Children of the Alleghenies, p.30

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Lost Children of the Alleghenies

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for them. The ladies everywhere throughout the excited vicinity exerted themselves to provide the hunters with food as they came in hungry from the search.

CHAPTER V.

The Dream and Where the Children Were Found.

Ten days and nights of constant search by hundreds, and thousands of people had now gone by. Ten long days and sleepless nights had passed away with the disconsolate parents of the the lost children, and with less hope of finding them now than ever before. No one can imagine how much they suffered from anxiety and suspense. It would have been a relief to them to have known that their children were dead and at rest; but even this seemed to be denied them.
On the tenth night after the children were lost, a man by the name of Jacob Dibert, living some twelve or thirteen miles from the place where the children were lost, and who, up to this

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for them. The ladies everywhere throughout the excited vicinity exerted themselves to provide the hunters with food as they came in hungry from the search. CHAPTER V. The Dream and Where the Children Were Found. Ten days and nights of constant search by hundreds, and thousands of people had now gone by. Ten long days and sleepless nights had passed away with the disconsolate parents of the the lost children, and with less hope of finding them now than ever before. No one can imagine how much they suffered from anxiety and suspense. It would have been a relief to them to have known that their children were dead and at rest; but even this seemed to be denied them. On the tenth night after the children were lost, a man by the name of Jacob Dibert, living some twelve or thirteen miles from the place where the children were lost, and who, up to this