Vol. I.—No. 47. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
Tuesday, September 21, 1880. | Copyright, 1880, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
Kitty was eight years old, and Ted was seven. They had always lived on alarge farm, and knew all about birds and squirrels, and the differentkinds of trees, and how to make bonfires and little stone ovens; andthey could shoot with bows and arrows, and swim, and climb trees, andsplit kindlings, and take care of chickens and ducks and turkeys, and doa great many jolly and useful things which city children hardly get evena chance to do. Well, once when they went on a visit with some cousinsto an uncle's on the other side of "Big Woodsy," as they called themountain, they did not get home that night.[Pg 682]
The uncle thought they had gone home, and the father and mother thoughtthey had remained overnight at the uncle's. So n