Page 121 - Jack's victory and other stories about dogs

after due deliberation they divided themselves

into parties, each pf which set out to search the

forest in such directions as would enable them

to encompass the whole of it. All the parties

returned in the evening, having been equally
unsuccessful. Next clay the search "was renewed,

hut with no better result.

In the midst of their distress Tewenissa, an

Indian from Anaguaga, who happened to he

journeying in that quarter accompanied by his
dog Qmah, happily went into the house of the

pi anter ask ing f or shelter f or a aho rt to m e. B eing

informed of the eircunistances he requested the

shoes and stockings last worn by the missing boy

to he brought to him. He then ordered his dog
to smell them; and, taking the house for a centre,

described a semicircle of a quarter of a mile,

urging the dog to find out the scent. They had
net gone far before the sag<ieious animal began

to bay. The track was followed up by the dog

with n still louder 'baying, till at last, darting off

at full speedj he was lost in the thickness of the

woods. Half an hour afterwards they saw him