Man Lost in the Wilds.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 8 May 1914, Page 2

Man Lost in the Wilds.

An old hunter in the forests of America was out one winter's day trapping for furs. Pushing his canoe through the loose ice of a lake, he rounded a point, and caught the sound ol something walking through the ice. He felt jure it was a moose, and, cocking l.is rifle, he held it in one hand and pushed his canoe with the other. Quietly he rounded the point, to see. to his utter amazement, not a moos", but a man, wading in the icy water. The man had noticing- on his hands or feet, his clothes were torn and very ragged, and he was wasted almost to a skeleton. With great difficulty the lu'iiiiine hunter got him into the

canoe, landed on the bank, made a fire, and gave him some hot drink and food. The man, who was evidently crazed, soon quieted down, and fell asleep. The hunter nursed him like an infant. With great dilliculty he got from the man the name of the place from which he came. Then he set out to take him home. He had to go slowly and carefully, keeping a resolute watch on the wanderer, lest he should try to escape once more into the forest. Aft<<r nearly a week's travel he reached the village. There he found the whole community under great excitement, and more than a hundred men were scouring the district for the lost crazy man. It had been agreed upon that, if he were found, bells should be rung and guns fired. This was speedily done ; the peals and reports rang out in the clear frosty air, the echoes being repeated in forest and on mountain, till every seeker knew that the lost one was found.