BOYS, YOU NEED NOT BE LOST. 
OYS of little experience in travelling through the forest 
often say, like this: *¢I wish I could tramp the woods 
wherever I wish without getting astray.” Now I think most 
any boy can soon learn to keep his course and be able to 
determine about where he is, if he will remember always to 
keep in mind the direction in which he is travelling. In the 
first place, you know that the sun rises in the east and sets in 
the west. ‘We always know that.” Exactly, but keep it 
in mind just the same. Every hour from its rising until its 
setting you can locate it, and knowing where the sun is, and 
remembering how you have been travelling, you will know 
where you are yourself. 
In the middle of the forenoon the sun is in the south-east 
(or near enough to answer your purpose); at noon in the 
south; middle of the afternoon, south-west; and when the 
sun shines brightly out, it is quite easy to keep in mind the 
course. Say for instance, you have travelled about two miles 
south, then two west; you are south-west of your starting 
point ; a north-east course will take you back. Perhaps after 
walking north-east awhile to get back, you find swamp or 
