186 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



river ? Or may it possibly be along the 

 village street that he strayed? Or you 

 remember Charley Ross? 



Hurry ! He has not been seen for half 

 an hour, an hour. Look everywhere ! 

 Bring the horse and the buckboard. Let 

 us fly ! 



Well, well ! .It was a false alarm. The 

 little fellow had strayed away some hun 

 dreds of yards, and had been hospitably 

 entreated by a thoughtless neighbour ; and 

 here he is by his mother s side again, and 

 all is well. And the full eyes of the mother 

 say, Good friends, pardon me. I am very 

 sorry to have alarmed you so, but but 

 he was lost ! My child was lost ! 



JULY 9. 1894. 



