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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lost Child, by Henry Kingsley
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+Title: The Lost Child
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+Author: Henry Kingsley
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+Release Date: May 9, 2008 [EBook #25404]
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+Language: English
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+   THE LOST CHILD.
+
+   BY
+
+   HENRY KINGSLEY.
+
+   [Illustration: "_And there he stood, naked and free, on the
+    forbidden ground._"]
+
+   _ILLUSTRATED BY L. FRÖLICH._
+
+   London and New York:
+   MACMILLAN AND CO.
+   1871.
+
+[Illustration: "_Looking eagerly across the water._" FRONT.]
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+It is only natural that an author should say a few words about a
+republication of this kind. The story in its separate form has the
+advantage of being illustrated by an eminent artist, whose special
+qualifications are widely known and acknowledged; and it seemed to all
+concerned best that it should be left entirely untouched. The first two
+paragraphs and the last short one are simply added: no other liberty has
+been taken with it.
+
+To avoid the trouble of those great plagues of literature, foot-notes,
+the author asks the reader to submit to a few very trifling
+explanations:
+
+"Quantongs" are a bush fruit, of about the same quality as green
+gooseberries, but, like the last-named fruit, very much sought after by
+the native youth.
+
+The Bunyip is the native river devil, or kelpie, evidently the crocodile
+of the Northern Australian rivers, whose recognition by the Southern
+natives in their legends shows, if nothing else did, that the centre of
+dispersion in Australia was from the North, as Doctor Laing told us
+years ago.
+
+With regard to the habit which lost children have of aimless climbing,
+the author knew a child who, being lost by his father while out shooting
+on one of the flats bordering on the Eastern Pyrenees in Port Phillip on
+Sunday afternoon, was found the next Wednesday dead, at an elevation
+above the Avoca township of between two and three thousand feet.
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+
+                                                                    PAGE
+
+   SOMETIMES LOOKING EAGERLY ACROSS THE WATER AT THE
+   WAVING FOREST BOUGHS                                          _Front._
+
+   AND THERE HE STOOD, NAKED AND FREE, ON THE FORBIDDEN
+   GROUND                                                     _Vignette._
+
+   "MOTHER, WHAT COUNTRY IS THAT ACROSS THE RIVER?"                   15
+
+   A KANGAROO! A SNAKE! AN EAGLE!                                     21
+
+   HE WAS LOST IN THE BUSH                                            25
+
+   HE CAME ON THE BALD, THUNDER-SMITTEN SUMMIT RIDGE                  29
+
+   "WE HAVE COME TO HELP YOU, MISTRESS"                               33
+
+   THERE HE LAY, DEAD AND STIFF                                       39
+
+
+
+
+THE LOST CHILD.
+
+
+Remember? Yes, I remember well that time when the disagreement arose
+between Sam Buckley and Cecil, and how it was mended. You are wrong
+about one thing, General; no words ever passed between those two young
+men: death was between them before they had time to speak.
+
+I will tell you the real story, old as I am, as well as either of them
+could tell it for themselves; and as I tell it I hear the familiar roar
+of the old snowy river in my ears, and if I shut my eyes I can see the
+great mountain, Lanyngerin, bending down his head like a thorough-bred
+horse with a curb in his mouth; I can see the long grey plains, broken
+with the outlines of the solitary volcanoes Widderin and Monmot. Ah,
+General Halbert! I will go back there next year, for I am tired of
+England, and I will leave my bones there; I am getting old, and I want
+peace, as I had it in Australia. As for the story you speak of, it is
+simply this:--
+
+Four or five miles up the river from Garoopna stood a solitary hut,
+sheltered by a lofty bare knoll, round which the great river chafed
+among the boulders. Across the stream was the forest sloping down in
+pleasant glades from the mountain; and behind the hut rose the plain
+four or five hundred feet overhead, seeming to be held aloft by the
+blue-stone columns which rose from the river-side.
+
+In this cottage resided a shepherd, his wife, and one little boy, their
+son, about eight years old,--a strange, wild little bush child, able to
+speak articulately, but utterly without knowledge or experience of human
+creatures, save of his father and mother; unable to read a line; without
+religion of any sort or kind; as entire a little savage, in fact, as you
+could find in the worst den in your city, morally speaking, and yet
+beautiful to look on; as active as a roe, and, with regard to natural
+objects, as fearless as a lion.
+
+As yet unfit to begin labour; all the long summer he would wander about
+the river bank, up and down the beautiful rock-walled paradise where he
+was confined, sometimes looking eagerly across the water at the waving
+forest boughs, and fancying he could see other children far up the
+vistas beckoning to him to cross and play in that merry land of shifting
+lights and shadows.
+
+It grew quite into a passion with the poor little man to get across and
+play there; and one day when his mother was shifting the hurdles, and he
+was handing her the strips of green hide which bound them together, he
+said to her,--
+
+"Mother, what country is that across the river?"
+
+"The forest, child."
+
+"There's plenty of quantongs over there, eh, mother, and raspberries?
+Why mayn't I get across and play there?"
+
+"The river is too deep, child, and the Bunyip lives in the water under
+the stones."
+
+[Illustration: "_Mother, what country is that across the river?_"]
+
+"Who are the children that play across there?"
+
+"Black children, likely."
+
+"No white children?"
+
+"Pixies; don't go near 'em, child; they'll lure you on, Lord knows
+where. Don't get trying to cross the river, now, or you'll be drowned."
+
+But next day the passion was stronger on him than ever. Quite early on
+the glorious cloudless midsummer day he was down by the river-side,
+sitting on a rock, with his shoes and stockings off, paddling his feet
+in the clear tepid water, and watching the million fish in the
+shallows--black fish and grayling--leaping and flashing in the sun.
+
+There is no pleasure that I have ever experienced like a child's
+midsummer holiday,--the time, I mean, when two or three of us used to
+go away up the brook, and take our dinners with us, and come home at
+night tired, dirty, happy, scratched beyond recognition, with a great
+nosegay, three little trout and one shoe, the other having been used for
+a boat till it had gone down with all hands out of soundings. How poor
+our Derby days, our Greenwich dinners, our evening parties, where there
+are plenty of nice girls, are, after that! Depend on it, a man never
+experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen as he does before:
+unless in some cases in his first love-making, when the sensation is new
+to him.
+
+But, meanwhile, there sat our child, barelegged, watching the forbidden
+ground beyond the river. A fresh breeze was moving the trees, and making
+the whole a dazzling mass of shifting light and shadow. He sat so still
+that a glorious violet and red kingfisher perched quite close, and,
+dashing into the water, came forth with a fish, and fled like a ray of
+light along the winding of the river. A colony of little shell parrots,
+too, crowded on a bough, and twittered and ran to and fro quite busily,
+as though they said to him, "We don't mind you, my dear; you are quite
+one of us."
+
+Never was the river so low. He stepped in; it scarcely reached his
+ankle. Now surely he might get across. He stripped himself, and,
+carrying his clothes, waded through, the water never reaching his
+middle, all across the long, yellow gravelly shallow. And there he
+stood, naked and free, on the forbidden ground.
+
+He quickly dressed himself, and began examining his new kingdom, rich
+beyond his utmost hopes. Such quantongs, such raspberries, surpassing
+imagination; and when tired of them, such fern boughs, six or eight feet
+long! He would penetrate this region, and see how far it extended.
+
+What tales he would have for his father to-night! He would bring him
+here, and show him all the wonders, and perhaps he would build a new hut
+over here, and come and live in it? Perhaps the pretty young lady, with
+the feathers in her hat, lived somewhere here, too?
+
+There! There is one of those children he has seen before across the
+river. Ah! ah! it is not a child at all, but a pretty grey beast, with
+big ears. A kangaroo, my lad; he won't play with you, but skips away
+slowly, and leaves you alone.
+
+[Illustration: "_A Kangaroo! A Snake! An Eagle!_"]
+
+There is something like the gleam of water on that rock. A snake! Now a
+sounding rush through the wood, and a passing shadow. An eagle! He
+brushes so close to the child, that he strikes at the bird with a stick,
+and then watches him as he shoots up like a rocket, and, measuring the
+fields of air in ever-widening circles, hangs like a motionless speck
+upon the sky; though, measure his wings across, and you will find he is
+nearer fifteen feet than fourteen.
+
+Here is a prize, though! A wee little native bear, barely a foot
+long,--a little grey beast, comical beyond expression, with broad
+flapped ears,--sits on a tree within reach. He makes no resistance, but
+cuddles into the child's bosom, and eats a leaf as they go along; while
+his mother sits aloft, and grunts indignant at the abstraction of her
+offspring, but, on the whole, takes it pretty comfortably, and goes on
+with her dinner of peppermint leaves.
+
+What a short day it has been! Here is the sun getting low, and the
+magpies and jackasses beginning to tune up before roosting.
+
+He would turn and go back to the river. Alas! which way?
+
+He was lost in the bush. He turned back and went, as he thought, the way
+he had come, but soon arrived at a tall, precipitous cliff, which, by
+some infernal magic, seemed to have got between him and the river. Then
+he broke down, and that strange madness came on him which comes even
+on strong men when lost in the forest; a despair, a confusion of
+intellect, which has cost many a man his life. Think what it must be
+with a child!
+
+[Illustration: _He was lost in the Bush._]
+
+He was fully persuaded that the cliff was between him and home, and that
+he must climb it. Alas! every step he took aloft carried him further
+from the river and the hope of safety; and when he came to the top, just
+at dark, he saw nothing but cliff after cliff, range after range, all
+around him. He had been wandering through steep gullies all day
+unconsciously, and had penetrated far into the mountains. Night was
+coming down, still and crystal clear, and the poor little lad was far
+away from help or hope, going his last long journey alone.
+
+Partly perhaps walking, and partly sitting down and weeping, he got
+through the night; and when the solemn morning came up, again he was
+still tottering along the leading range, bewildered; crying, from time
+to time, "Mother, mother!" still nursing his little bear, his only
+companion, to his bosom, and holding still in his hand a few poor
+flowers he had gathered the day before. Up and on all day, and at
+evening, passing out of the great zone of timber, he came on the bald,
+thunder-smitten summit ridge, where one ruined tree held up its skeleton
+arms against the sunset, and the wind came keen and frosty. So, with
+failing, feeble legs, upward still, towards the region of the granite
+and the snow; towards the eyrie of the kite and the eagle.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: _He came on the bald, thunder-smitten summit ridge._]
+
+Brisk as they all were at Garoopna, none were so brisk as Cecil and Sam.
+Charles Hawker wanted to come with them, but Sam asked him to go with
+Jim; and, long before the others were ready, our two had strapped their
+blankets to their saddles, and followed by Sam's dog Rover, now getting
+a little grey about the nose, cantered off up the river.
+
+Neither spoke at first. They knew what a solemn task they had before
+them; and, while acting as though everything depended on speed, guessed
+well that their search was only for a little corpse, which, if they had
+luck, they would find stiff and cold under some tree or cray.
+
+Cecil began: "Sam, depend on it that child has crossed the river to this
+side. If he had been on the plains, he would have been seen from a
+distance in a few hours."
+
+"I quite agree," said Sam. "Let us go down on this side till we are
+opposite the hut, and search for marks by the river-side."
+
+So they agreed; and in half an hour were opposite the hut, and, riding
+across to it to ask a few questions, found the poor mother sitting on
+the door-step, with her apron over her head, rocking herself to and fro.
+
+"We have come to help you, mistress," said Sam. "How do you think he is
+gone?"
+
+She said, with frequent bursts of grief, that "some days before he had
+mentioned having seen white children across the water, who beckoned him
+to cross and play; that she, knowing well that they were fairies, or
+perhaps worse, had warned him solemnly not to mind them; but that she
+had very little doubt that they had helped him over and carried him away
+to the forest; and that her husband would not believe in his having
+crossed the river."
+
+[Illustration: "_We have come to help you, Mistress._"]
+
+"Why, it is not knee-deep across the shallow," said Cecil.
+
+"Let us cross again," said Sam: "he _may_ be drowned, but I don't think
+it."
+
+In a quarter of an hour from starting they found, slightly up the
+stream, one of the child's socks, which in his hurry to dress he had
+forgotten. Here brave Rover took up the trail like a bloodhound, and
+before evening stopped at the foot of a lofty cliff.
+
+"Can he have gone up here?" said Sam, as they were brought up by the
+rock.
+
+"Most likely," said Cecil. "Lost children always climb from height to
+height. I have heard it often remarked by old bush hands. Why they do
+so, God, who leads them, only knows; but the fact is beyond denial. Ask
+Rover what he thinks?"
+
+The brave old dog was half-way up, looking back for them. It took them
+nearly till dark to get their horses up; and, as there was no moon, and
+the way was getting perilous, they determined to camp, and start again
+in the morning.
+
+They spread their blankets and lay down side by side. Sam had thought,
+from Cecil's proposing to come with him in preference to the others,
+that he would speak of a subject nearly concerning them both; but Cecil
+went off to sleep and made no sign; and Sam, ere he dozed, said to
+himself, "If he don't speak this journey, I will. It is unbearable that
+we should not come to some understanding. Poor Cecil!"
+
+At early dawn they caught up their horses, which had been hobbled with
+the stirrup leathers, and started afresh. Both were more silent than
+ever, and the dog, with his nose to the ground, led them slowly along
+the rocky rib of the mountain, ever going higher and higher.
+
+"It is inconceivable," said Sam, "that the poor child can have come up
+here. There is Tuckerimbid close to our right, five thousand feet above
+the river. Don't you think we must be mistaken?"
+
+"The dog disagrees with you," said Cecil. "He has something before him
+not very far off. Watch him."
+
+The trees had become dwarfed and scattered; they were getting out of the
+region of trees; the real forest zone was now below them, and they saw
+they were emerging towards a bald elevated down, and that a few hundred
+yards before them was a dead tree, on the highest branch of which sat an
+eagle.
+
+"The dog has stopped," said Cecil; "the end is near."
+
+"See," said Sam, "there is a hand-kerchief under the tree."
+
+"That is the boy himself," said Cecil.
+
+[Illustration: _There he lay, dead and stiff._]
+
+They were up to him and off in a moment. There he lay, dead and stiff,
+one hand still grasping the flowers he had gathered on his last happy
+play-day, and the other laid as a pillow, between the soft cold cheek
+and the rough cold stone. His midsummer holiday was over, his long
+journey was ended. He had found out at last what lay beyond the shining
+river he had watched so long.
+
+That is the whole story, General Halbert; and who should know it better
+than I, Geoffry Hamlyn?
+
+THE END.
+
+
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+<img src="images/img.cover.jpg" width="406" height="550" alt="" title="cover" />
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+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 398px;">
+<a name="frontis" id="frontis"></a>
+<img src="images/illus_004.jpg" width="398" height="500" alt="&quot;Looking eagerly across the water.&quot; Front." title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;<i>Looking eagerly across the water.</i>&quot;<span class="smcap">Front.</span></span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h1>THE LOST CHILD.</h1>
+
+<h4>BY</h4>
+
+<h2>HENRY KINGSLEY.</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<a name="vign" id="vign"></a>
+<img src="images/illus_005.jpg" width="300" height="291" alt="&quot;And there he stood, naked and free, on the
+forbidden ground.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;<i>And there he stood, naked and free, on the
+forbidden ground.</i>&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<h3><i>ILLUSTRATED BY L. FR&Ouml;LICH.</i></h3>
+
+<p class="center"><i>London and New York:</i><br />
+<i>MACMILLAN AND CO.</i><br />
+<i>1871.</i></p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE.</h2>
+
+
+<p>It is only natural that an author should say a few words about a
+republication of this kind. The story in its separate form has the
+advantage of being illustrated by an eminent artist, whose special
+qualifications are widely known and acknowledged; and it seemed to all
+concerned best that it should be left entirely untouched. The first two
+paragraphs and the last short one are simply added: no other liberty has
+been taken with it.</p>
+
+<p>To avoid the trouble of those great plagues of literature, foot-notes,
+the author asks the reader to submit to a few very trifling
+explanations:</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p><p>"Quantongs" are a bush fruit, of about the same quality as green
+gooseberries, but, like the last-named fruit, very much sought after by
+the native youth.</p>
+
+<p>The Bunyip is the native river devil, or kelpie, evidently the crocodile
+of the Northern Australian rivers, whose recognition by the Southern
+natives in their legends shows, if nothing else did, that the centre of
+dispersion in Australia was from the North, as Doctor Laing told us
+years ago.</p>
+
+<p>With regard to the habit which lost children have of aimless climbing,
+the author knew a child who, being lost by his father while out shooting
+on one of the flats bordering on the Eastern Pyrenees in Port Phillip on
+Sunday afternoon, was found the next Wednesday dead, at an elevation
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>above the Avoca township of between two and three thousand feet.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS" id="LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS"></a>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2>
+
+
+
+
+<div class='centered'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="ILLUSTRATIONS">
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;</td><td align='right'>PAGE</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sometimes looking eagerly across the water at the waving forest boughs</span></td><td align='right'><a href='#frontis'><i>Front.</i></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">And there he stood, naked and free, on the forbidden ground</span></td><td align='right'><a href='#vign'><i>Vignette.</i></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">"Mother, what country is that across the river?"</span></td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_15'>15</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">A Kangaroo! A Snake! An Eagle!</span></td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_21'>21</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">He was lost in the bush</span></td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_25'>25</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">He came on the bald, thunder-smitten summit ridge</span></td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_29'>29</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">"We have come to help you, mistress"</span></td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_33'>33</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">There he lay, dead and stiff</span></td><td align='right'><a href='#Page_39'>39</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_LOST_CHILD" id="THE_LOST_CHILD"></a>THE LOST CHILD.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Remember? Yes, I remember well that time when the disagreement arose
+between Sam Buckley and Cecil, and how it was mended. You are wrong
+about one thing, General; no words ever passed between those two young
+men: death was between them before they had time to speak.</p>
+
+<p>I will tell you the real story, old as I am, as well as either of them
+could tell it for themselves; and as I tell it I hear the familiar roar
+of the old snowy river in my ears, and if I shut my eyes I can see the
+great mountain, Lanyngerin, bending down his head like a thorough-bred
+horse with a curb<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> in his mouth; I can see the long grey plains, broken
+with the outlines of the solitary volcanoes Widderin and Monmot. Ah,
+General Halbert! I will go back there next year, for I am tired of
+England, and I will leave my bones there; I am getting old, and I want
+peace, as I had it in Australia. As for the story you speak of, it is
+simply this:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Four or five miles up the river from Garoopna stood a solitary hut,
+sheltered by a lofty bare knoll, round which the great river chafed
+among the boulders. Across the stream was the forest sloping down in
+pleasant glades from the mountain; and behind the hut rose the plain
+four or five hundred feet overhead, seeming to be held aloft by the
+blue-stone columns which rose from the river-side.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In this cottage resided a shepherd, his wife, and one little boy, their
+son, about eight years old,&mdash;a strange, wild little bush child, able to
+speak articulately, but utterly without knowledge or experience of human
+creatures, save of his father and mother; unable to read a line; without
+religion of any sort or kind; as entire a little savage, in fact, as you
+could find in the worst den in your city, morally speaking, and yet
+beautiful to look on; as active as a roe, and, with regard to natural
+objects, as fearless as a lion.</p>
+
+<p>As yet unfit to begin labour; all the long summer he would wander about
+the river bank, up and down the beautiful rock-walled paradise where he
+was confined, sometimes looking eagerly across the water at the waving
+forest boughs, and fancying he could<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> see other children far up the
+vistas beckoning to him to cross and play in that merry land of shifting
+lights and shadows.</p>
+
+<p>It grew quite into a passion with the poor little man to get across and
+play there; and one day when his mother was shifting the hurdles, and he
+was handing her the strips of green hide which bound them together, he
+said to her,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Mother, what country is that across the river?"</p>
+
+<p>"The forest, child."</p>
+
+<p>"There's plenty of quantongs over there, eh, mother, and raspberries?
+Why mayn't I get across and play there?"</p>
+
+<p>"The river is too deep, child, and the Bunyip lives in the water under
+the stones."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;">
+<img src="images/illus_015.jpg" width="370" height="500" alt="&quot;Mother, what country is that across the river?&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;<i>Mother, what country is that across the river</i>?&quot;</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Who are the children that play across there?"</p>
+
+<p>"Black children, likely."</p>
+
+<p>"No white children?"</p>
+
+<p>"Pixies; don't go near 'em, child; they'll lure you on, Lord knows
+where. Don't get trying to cross the river, now, or you'll be drowned."</p>
+
+<p>But next day the passion was stronger on him than ever. Quite early on
+the glorious cloudless midsummer day he was down by the river-side,
+sitting on a rock, with his shoes and stockings off, paddling his feet
+in the clear tepid water, and watching the million fish in the
+shallows&mdash;black fish and grayling&mdash;leaping and flashing in the sun.</p>
+
+<p>There is no pleasure that I have ever experienced like a child's
+midsummer holiday,&mdash;the time, I mean, when two<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> or three of us used to
+go away up the brook, and take our dinners with us, and come home at
+night tired, dirty, happy, scratched beyond recognition, with a great
+nosegay, three little trout and one shoe, the other having been used for
+a boat till it had gone down with all hands out of soundings. How poor
+our Derby days, our Greenwich dinners, our evening parties, where there
+are plenty of nice girls, are, after that! Depend on it, a man never
+experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen as he does before:
+unless in some cases in his first love-making, when the sensation is new
+to him.</p>
+
+<p>But, meanwhile, there sat our child, barelegged, watching the forbidden
+ground beyond the river. A fresh breeze was moving the trees, and making
+the whole a dazzling mass of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> shifting light and shadow. He sat so still
+that a glorious violet and red kingfisher perched quite close, and,
+dashing into the water, came forth with a fish, and fled like a ray of
+light along the winding of the river. A colony of little shell parrots,
+too, crowded on a bough, and twittered and ran to and fro quite busily,
+as though they said to him, "We don't mind you, my dear; you are quite
+one of us."</p>
+
+<p>Never was the river so low. He stepped in; it scarcely reached his
+ankle. Now surely he might get across. He stripped himself, and,
+carrying his clothes, waded through, the water never reaching his
+middle, all across the long, yellow gravelly shallow. And there he
+stood, naked and free, on the forbidden ground.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>He quickly dressed himself, and began examining his new kingdom, rich
+beyond his utmost hopes. Such quantongs, such raspberries, surpassing
+imagination; and when tired of them, such fern boughs, six or eight feet
+long! He would penetrate this region, and see how far it extended.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>What tales he would have for his father to-night! He would bring him
+here, and show him all the wonders, and perhaps he would build a new hut
+over here, and come and live in it? Perhaps the pretty young lady, with
+the feathers in her hat, lived somewhere here, too?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There! There is one of those children he has seen before across the
+river. Ah! ah! it is not a child at all, but a pretty grey beast, with
+big ears. A kangaroo, my lad; he won't<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> play with you, but skips away
+slowly, and leaves you alone.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;">
+<img src="images/illus_021.jpg" width="383" height="500" alt="&quot;A Kangaroo! A Snake! An Eagle!&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;<i>A Kangaroo! A Snake! An Eagle</i>!&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>There is something like the gleam of water on that rock. A snake! Now a
+sounding rush through the wood, and a passing shadow. An eagle! He
+brushes so close to the child, that he strikes at the bird with a stick,
+and then watches him as he shoots up like a rocket, and, measuring the
+fields of air in ever-widening circles, hangs like a motionless speck
+upon the sky; though, measure his wings across, and you will find he is
+nearer fifteen feet than fourteen.</p>
+
+<p>Here is a prize, though! A wee little native bear, barely a foot
+long,&mdash;a little grey beast, comical beyond expression, with broad
+flapped ears,&mdash;sits on a tree within reach. He makes no resistance, but
+cuddles into<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> the child's bosom, and eats a leaf as they go along; while
+his mother sits aloft, and grunts indignant at the abstraction of her
+offspring, but, on the whole, takes it pretty comfortably, and goes on
+with her dinner of peppermint leaves.</p>
+
+<p>What a short day it has been! Here is the sun getting low, and the
+magpies and jackasses beginning to tune up before roosting.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+<p>He would turn and go back to the river. Alas! which way?</p>
+
+<p>He was lost in the bush. He turned back and went, as he thought, the way
+he had come, but soon arrived at a tall, precipitous cliff, which, by
+some infernal magic, seemed to have got between him and the river. Then
+he broke down, and that strange madness came on him which comes even<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>
+on strong men when lost in the forest; a despair, a confusion of
+intellect, which has cost many a man his life. Think what it must be
+with a child!</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;">
+<img src="images/illus_025.jpg" width="385" height="500" alt="He was lost in the Bush." title="" />
+<span class="caption"><i>He was lost in the Bush.</i></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>He was fully persuaded that the cliff was between him and home, and that
+he must climb it. Alas! every step he took aloft carried him further
+from the river and the hope of safety; and when he came to the top, just
+at dark, he saw nothing but cliff after cliff, range after range, all
+around him. He had been wandering through steep gullies all day
+unconsciously, and had penetrated far into the mountains. Night was
+coming down, still and crystal clear, and the poor little lad was far
+away from help or hope, going his last long journey alone.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+<p>Partly perhaps walking, and partly sitting down and weeping, he got
+through the night; and when the solemn morning came up, again he was
+still tottering along the leading range, bewildered; crying, from time
+to time, "Mother, mother!" still nursing his little bear, his only
+companion, to his bosom, and holding still in his hand a few poor
+flowers he had gathered the day before. Up and on all day, and at
+evening, passing out of the great zone of timber, he came on the bald,
+thunder-smitten summit ridge, where one ruined tree held up its skeleton
+arms against the sunset, and the wind came keen and frosty. So, with
+failing, feeble legs, upward still, towards the region of the granite
+and the snow; towards the eyrie of the kite and the eagle.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 401px;">
+<img src="images/illus_029.jpg" width="401" height="500" alt="He came on the bald, thunder-smitten summit ridge." title="" />
+<span class="caption"><i>He came on the bald, thunder-smitten summit ridge.</i></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Brisk as they all were at Garoopna, none were so brisk as Cecil and Sam.
+Charles Hawker wanted to come with them, but Sam asked him to go with
+Jim; and, long before the others were ready, our two had strapped their
+blankets to their saddles, and followed by Sam's dog Rover, now getting
+a little grey about the nose, cantered off up the river.</p>
+
+<p>Neither spoke at first. They knew what a solemn task they had before
+them; and, while acting as though everything depended on speed, guessed
+well that their search was only for a little corpse, which, if they had
+luck, they would find stiff and cold under some tree or cray.</p>
+
+<p>Cecil began: "Sam, depend on it that child has crossed the river to this
+side. If he had been on the plains,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> he would have been seen from a
+distance in a few hours."</p>
+
+<p>"I quite agree," said Sam. "Let us go down on this side till we are
+opposite the hut, and search for marks by the river-side."</p>
+
+<p>So they agreed; and in half an hour were opposite the hut, and, riding
+across to it to ask a few questions, found the poor mother sitting on
+the door-step, with her apron over her head, rocking herself to and fro.</p>
+
+<p>"We have come to help you, mistress," said Sam. "How do you think he is
+gone?"</p>
+
+<p>She said, with frequent bursts of grief, that "some days before he had
+mentioned having seen white children across the water, who beckoned him
+to cross and play; that she, knowing well that they were fairies, or
+perhaps<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> worse, had warned him solemnly not to mind them; but that she
+had very little doubt that they had helped him over and carried him away
+to the forest; and that her husband would not believe in his having
+crossed the river."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 378px;">
+<img src="images/illus_033.jpg" width="378" height="500" alt="&quot;We have come to help you, Mistress.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;<i>We have come to help you, Mistress.</i>&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span>"Why, it is not knee-deep across the shallow," said Cecil.</p>
+
+<p>"Let us cross again," said Sam: "he <i>may</i> be drowned, but I don't think
+it."</p>
+
+<p>In a quarter of an hour from starting they found, slightly up the
+stream, one of the child's socks, which in his hurry to dress he had
+forgotten. Here brave Rover took up the trail like a bloodhound, and
+before evening stopped at the foot of a lofty cliff.</p>
+
+<p>"Can he have gone up here?" said Sam, as they were brought up by the
+rock.</p>
+
+<p>"Most likely," said Cecil. "Lost<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> children always climb from height to
+height. I have heard it often remarked by old bush hands. Why they do
+so, God, who leads them, only knows; but the fact is beyond denial. Ask
+Rover what he thinks?"</p>
+
+<p>The brave old dog was half-way up, looking back for them. It took them
+nearly till dark to get their horses up; and, as there was no moon, and
+the way was getting perilous, they determined to camp, and start again
+in the morning.</p>
+
+<p>They spread their blankets and lay down side by side. Sam had thought,
+from Cecil's proposing to come with him in preference to the others,
+that he would speak of a subject nearly concerning them both; but Cecil
+went off to sleep and made no sign; and Sam, ere he dozed, said to
+himself,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> "If he don't speak this journey, I will. It is unbearable that
+we should not come to some understanding. Poor Cecil!"</p>
+
+<p>At early dawn they caught up their horses, which had been hobbled with
+the stirrup leathers, and started afresh. Both were more silent than
+ever, and the dog, with his nose to the ground, led them slowly along
+the rocky rib of the mountain, ever going higher and higher.</p>
+
+<p>"It is inconceivable," said Sam, "that the poor child can have come up
+here. There is Tuckerimbid close to our right, five thousand feet above
+the river. Don't you think we must be mistaken?"</p>
+
+<p>"The dog disagrees with you," said Cecil. "He has something before him
+not very far off. Watch him."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The trees had become dwarfed and scattered; they were getting out of the
+region of trees; the real forest zone was now below them, and they saw
+they were emerging towards a bald elevated down, and that a few hundred
+yards before them was a dead tree, on the highest branch of which sat an
+eagle.</p>
+
+<p>"The dog has stopped," said Cecil; "the end is near."</p>
+
+<p>"See," said Sam, "there is a hand-kerchief under the tree."</p>
+
+<p>"That is the boy himself," said Cecil.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 357px;">
+<img src="images/illus_039.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt="There he lay, dead and stiff." title="" />
+<span class="caption"><i>There he lay, dead and stiff.</i></span>
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>They were up to him and off in a moment. There he lay, dead and stiff,
+one hand still grasping the flowers he had gathered on his last happy
+play-day, and the other laid as a pillow, between the soft cold cheek
+and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> rough cold stone. His midsummer holiday was over, his long
+journey was ended. He had found out at last what lay beyond the shining
+river he had watched so long.</p>
+
+<p>That is the whole story, General Halbert; and who should know it better
+than I, Geoffry Hamlyn?</p>
+
+<h4>THE END.</h4>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lost Child, by Henry Kingsley
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+Title: The Lost Child
+
+Author: Henry Kingsley
+
+Release Date: May 9, 2008 [EBook #25404]
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+
+   THE LOST CHILD.
+
+   BY
+
+   HENRY KINGSLEY.
+
+   [Illustration: "_And there he stood, naked and free, on the
+    forbidden ground._"]
+
+   _ILLUSTRATED BY L. FROLICH._
+
+   London and New York:
+   MACMILLAN AND CO.
+   1871.
+
+[Illustration: "_Looking eagerly across the water._" FRONT.]
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+It is only natural that an author should say a few words about a
+republication of this kind. The story in its separate form has the
+advantage of being illustrated by an eminent artist, whose special
+qualifications are widely known and acknowledged; and it seemed to all
+concerned best that it should be left entirely untouched. The first two
+paragraphs and the last short one are simply added: no other liberty has
+been taken with it.
+
+To avoid the trouble of those great plagues of literature, foot-notes,
+the author asks the reader to submit to a few very trifling
+explanations:
+
+"Quantongs" are a bush fruit, of about the same quality as green
+gooseberries, but, like the last-named fruit, very much sought after by
+the native youth.
+
+The Bunyip is the native river devil, or kelpie, evidently the crocodile
+of the Northern Australian rivers, whose recognition by the Southern
+natives in their legends shows, if nothing else did, that the centre of
+dispersion in Australia was from the North, as Doctor Laing told us
+years ago.
+
+With regard to the habit which lost children have of aimless climbing,
+the author knew a child who, being lost by his father while out shooting
+on one of the flats bordering on the Eastern Pyrenees in Port Phillip on
+Sunday afternoon, was found the next Wednesday dead, at an elevation
+above the Avoca township of between two and three thousand feet.
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+
+                                                                    PAGE
+
+   SOMETIMES LOOKING EAGERLY ACROSS THE WATER AT THE
+   WAVING FOREST BOUGHS                                          _Front._
+
+   AND THERE HE STOOD, NAKED AND FREE, ON THE FORBIDDEN
+   GROUND                                                     _Vignette._
+
+   "MOTHER, WHAT COUNTRY IS THAT ACROSS THE RIVER?"                   15
+
+   A KANGAROO! A SNAKE! AN EAGLE!                                     21
+
+   HE WAS LOST IN THE BUSH                                            25
+
+   HE CAME ON THE BALD, THUNDER-SMITTEN SUMMIT RIDGE                  29
+
+   "WE HAVE COME TO HELP YOU, MISTRESS"                               33
+
+   THERE HE LAY, DEAD AND STIFF                                       39
+
+
+
+
+THE LOST CHILD.
+
+
+Remember? Yes, I remember well that time when the disagreement arose
+between Sam Buckley and Cecil, and how it was mended. You are wrong
+about one thing, General; no words ever passed between those two young
+men: death was between them before they had time to speak.
+
+I will tell you the real story, old as I am, as well as either of them
+could tell it for themselves; and as I tell it I hear the familiar roar
+of the old snowy river in my ears, and if I shut my eyes I can see the
+great mountain, Lanyngerin, bending down his head like a thorough-bred
+horse with a curb in his mouth; I can see the long grey plains, broken
+with the outlines of the solitary volcanoes Widderin and Monmot. Ah,
+General Halbert! I will go back there next year, for I am tired of
+England, and I will leave my bones there; I am getting old, and I want
+peace, as I had it in Australia. As for the story you speak of, it is
+simply this:--
+
+Four or five miles up the river from Garoopna stood a solitary hut,
+sheltered by a lofty bare knoll, round which the great river chafed
+among the boulders. Across the stream was the forest sloping down in
+pleasant glades from the mountain; and behind the hut rose the plain
+four or five hundred feet overhead, seeming to be held aloft by the
+blue-stone columns which rose from the river-side.
+
+In this cottage resided a shepherd, his wife, and one little boy, their
+son, about eight years old,--a strange, wild little bush child, able to
+speak articulately, but utterly without knowledge or experience of human
+creatures, save of his father and mother; unable to read a line; without
+religion of any sort or kind; as entire a little savage, in fact, as you
+could find in the worst den in your city, morally speaking, and yet
+beautiful to look on; as active as a roe, and, with regard to natural
+objects, as fearless as a lion.
+
+As yet unfit to begin labour; all the long summer he would wander about
+the river bank, up and down the beautiful rock-walled paradise where he
+was confined, sometimes looking eagerly across the water at the waving
+forest boughs, and fancying he could see other children far up the
+vistas beckoning to him to cross and play in that merry land of shifting
+lights and shadows.
+
+It grew quite into a passion with the poor little man to get across and
+play there; and one day when his mother was shifting the hurdles, and he
+was handing her the strips of green hide which bound them together, he
+said to her,--
+
+"Mother, what country is that across the river?"
+
+"The forest, child."
+
+"There's plenty of quantongs over there, eh, mother, and raspberries?
+Why mayn't I get across and play there?"
+
+"The river is too deep, child, and the Bunyip lives in the water under
+the stones."
+
+[Illustration: "_Mother, what country is that across the river?_"]
+
+"Who are the children that play across there?"
+
+"Black children, likely."
+
+"No white children?"
+
+"Pixies; don't go near 'em, child; they'll lure you on, Lord knows
+where. Don't get trying to cross the river, now, or you'll be drowned."
+
+But next day the passion was stronger on him than ever. Quite early on
+the glorious cloudless midsummer day he was down by the river-side,
+sitting on a rock, with his shoes and stockings off, paddling his feet
+in the clear tepid water, and watching the million fish in the
+shallows--black fish and grayling--leaping and flashing in the sun.
+
+There is no pleasure that I have ever experienced like a child's
+midsummer holiday,--the time, I mean, when two or three of us used to
+go away up the brook, and take our dinners with us, and come home at
+night tired, dirty, happy, scratched beyond recognition, with a great
+nosegay, three little trout and one shoe, the other having been used for
+a boat till it had gone down with all hands out of soundings. How poor
+our Derby days, our Greenwich dinners, our evening parties, where there
+are plenty of nice girls, are, after that! Depend on it, a man never
+experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen as he does before:
+unless in some cases in his first love-making, when the sensation is new
+to him.
+
+But, meanwhile, there sat our child, barelegged, watching the forbidden
+ground beyond the river. A fresh breeze was moving the trees, and making
+the whole a dazzling mass of shifting light and shadow. He sat so still
+that a glorious violet and red kingfisher perched quite close, and,
+dashing into the water, came forth with a fish, and fled like a ray of
+light along the winding of the river. A colony of little shell parrots,
+too, crowded on a bough, and twittered and ran to and fro quite busily,
+as though they said to him, "We don't mind you, my dear; you are quite
+one of us."
+
+Never was the river so low. He stepped in; it scarcely reached his
+ankle. Now surely he might get across. He stripped himself, and,
+carrying his clothes, waded through, the water never reaching his
+middle, all across the long, yellow gravelly shallow. And there he
+stood, naked and free, on the forbidden ground.
+
+He quickly dressed himself, and began examining his new kingdom, rich
+beyond his utmost hopes. Such quantongs, such raspberries, surpassing
+imagination; and when tired of them, such fern boughs, six or eight feet
+long! He would penetrate this region, and see how far it extended.
+
+What tales he would have for his father to-night! He would bring him
+here, and show him all the wonders, and perhaps he would build a new hut
+over here, and come and live in it? Perhaps the pretty young lady, with
+the feathers in her hat, lived somewhere here, too?
+
+There! There is one of those children he has seen before across the
+river. Ah! ah! it is not a child at all, but a pretty grey beast, with
+big ears. A kangaroo, my lad; he won't play with you, but skips away
+slowly, and leaves you alone.
+
+[Illustration: "_A Kangaroo! A Snake! An Eagle!_"]
+
+There is something like the gleam of water on that rock. A snake! Now a
+sounding rush through the wood, and a passing shadow. An eagle! He
+brushes so close to the child, that he strikes at the bird with a stick,
+and then watches him as he shoots up like a rocket, and, measuring the
+fields of air in ever-widening circles, hangs like a motionless speck
+upon the sky; though, measure his wings across, and you will find he is
+nearer fifteen feet than fourteen.
+
+Here is a prize, though! A wee little native bear, barely a foot
+long,--a little grey beast, comical beyond expression, with broad
+flapped ears,--sits on a tree within reach. He makes no resistance, but
+cuddles into the child's bosom, and eats a leaf as they go along; while
+his mother sits aloft, and grunts indignant at the abstraction of her
+offspring, but, on the whole, takes it pretty comfortably, and goes on
+with her dinner of peppermint leaves.
+
+What a short day it has been! Here is the sun getting low, and the
+magpies and jackasses beginning to tune up before roosting.
+
+He would turn and go back to the river. Alas! which way?
+
+He was lost in the bush. He turned back and went, as he thought, the way
+he had come, but soon arrived at a tall, precipitous cliff, which, by
+some infernal magic, seemed to have got between him and the river. Then
+he broke down, and that strange madness came on him which comes even
+on strong men when lost in the forest; a despair, a confusion of
+intellect, which has cost many a man his life. Think what it must be
+with a child!
+
+[Illustration: _He was lost in the Bush._]
+
+He was fully persuaded that the cliff was between him and home, and that
+he must climb it. Alas! every step he took aloft carried him further
+from the river and the hope of safety; and when he came to the top, just
+at dark, he saw nothing but cliff after cliff, range after range, all
+around him. He had been wandering through steep gullies all day
+unconsciously, and had penetrated far into the mountains. Night was
+coming down, still and crystal clear, and the poor little lad was far
+away from help or hope, going his last long journey alone.
+
+Partly perhaps walking, and partly sitting down and weeping, he got
+through the night; and when the solemn morning came up, again he was
+still tottering along the leading range, bewildered; crying, from time
+to time, "Mother, mother!" still nursing his little bear, his only
+companion, to his bosom, and holding still in his hand a few poor
+flowers he had gathered the day before. Up and on all day, and at
+evening, passing out of the great zone of timber, he came on the bald,
+thunder-smitten summit ridge, where one ruined tree held up its skeleton
+arms against the sunset, and the wind came keen and frosty. So, with
+failing, feeble legs, upward still, towards the region of the granite
+and the snow; towards the eyrie of the kite and the eagle.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: _He came on the bald, thunder-smitten summit ridge._]
+
+Brisk as they all were at Garoopna, none were so brisk as Cecil and Sam.
+Charles Hawker wanted to come with them, but Sam asked him to go with
+Jim; and, long before the others were ready, our two had strapped their
+blankets to their saddles, and followed by Sam's dog Rover, now getting
+a little grey about the nose, cantered off up the river.
+
+Neither spoke at first. They knew what a solemn task they had before
+them; and, while acting as though everything depended on speed, guessed
+well that their search was only for a little corpse, which, if they had
+luck, they would find stiff and cold under some tree or cray.
+
+Cecil began: "Sam, depend on it that child has crossed the river to this
+side. If he had been on the plains, he would have been seen from a
+distance in a few hours."
+
+"I quite agree," said Sam. "Let us go down on this side till we are
+opposite the hut, and search for marks by the river-side."
+
+So they agreed; and in half an hour were opposite the hut, and, riding
+across to it to ask a few questions, found the poor mother sitting on
+the door-step, with her apron over her head, rocking herself to and fro.
+
+"We have come to help you, mistress," said Sam. "How do you think he is
+gone?"
+
+She said, with frequent bursts of grief, that "some days before he had
+mentioned having seen white children across the water, who beckoned him
+to cross and play; that she, knowing well that they were fairies, or
+perhaps worse, had warned him solemnly not to mind them; but that she
+had very little doubt that they had helped him over and carried him away
+to the forest; and that her husband would not believe in his having
+crossed the river."
+
+[Illustration: "_We have come to help you, Mistress._"]
+
+"Why, it is not knee-deep across the shallow," said Cecil.
+
+"Let us cross again," said Sam: "he _may_ be drowned, but I don't think
+it."
+
+In a quarter of an hour from starting they found, slightly up the
+stream, one of the child's socks, which in his hurry to dress he had
+forgotten. Here brave Rover took up the trail like a bloodhound, and
+before evening stopped at the foot of a lofty cliff.
+
+"Can he have gone up here?" said Sam, as they were brought up by the
+rock.
+
+"Most likely," said Cecil. "Lost children always climb from height to
+height. I have heard it often remarked by old bush hands. Why they do
+so, God, who leads them, only knows; but the fact is beyond denial. Ask
+Rover what he thinks?"
+
+The brave old dog was half-way up, looking back for them. It took them
+nearly till dark to get their horses up; and, as there was no moon, and
+the way was getting perilous, they determined to camp, and start again
+in the morning.
+
+They spread their blankets and lay down side by side. Sam had thought,
+from Cecil's proposing to come with him in preference to the others,
+that he would speak of a subject nearly concerning them both; but Cecil
+went off to sleep and made no sign; and Sam, ere he dozed, said to
+himself, "If he don't speak this journey, I will. It is unbearable that
+we should not come to some understanding. Poor Cecil!"
+
+At early dawn they caught up their horses, which had been hobbled with
+the stirrup leathers, and started afresh. Both were more silent than
+ever, and the dog, with his nose to the ground, led them slowly along
+the rocky rib of the mountain, ever going higher and higher.
+
+"It is inconceivable," said Sam, "that the poor child can have come up
+here. There is Tuckerimbid close to our right, five thousand feet above
+the river. Don't you think we must be mistaken?"
+
+"The dog disagrees with you," said Cecil. "He has something before him
+not very far off. Watch him."
+
+The trees had become dwarfed and scattered; they were getting out of the
+region of trees; the real forest zone was now below them, and they saw
+they were emerging towards a bald elevated down, and that a few hundred
+yards before them was a dead tree, on the highest branch of which sat an
+eagle.
+
+"The dog has stopped," said Cecil; "the end is near."
+
+"See," said Sam, "there is a hand-kerchief under the tree."
+
+"That is the boy himself," said Cecil.
+
+[Illustration: _There he lay, dead and stiff._]
+
+They were up to him and off in a moment. There he lay, dead and stiff,
+one hand still grasping the flowers he had gathered on his last happy
+play-day, and the other laid as a pillow, between the soft cold cheek
+and the rough cold stone. His midsummer holiday was over, his long
+journey was ended. He had found out at last what lay beyond the shining
+river he had watched so long.
+
+That is the whole story, General Halbert; and who should know it better
+than I, Geoffry Hamlyn?
+
+THE END.
+
+
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