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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Lost Child + +Author: Henry Kingsley + +Release Date: May 9, 2008 [EBook #25404] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOST CHILD *** + + + + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was made using scans of public domain works in the +International Children's Digital Library.) + + + + + + + + + + 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. 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