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54 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
to him. He tried another path and another;
but go where he would, he could not find his
way out of the forest. He was lost.
The child wandered on and on, and after
awhile it grew dark, and he was tired and lonely
for he was only five years old. He wandered
on in the dark, and at last he saw a light glim
mering through the trees. He followed the
gleam until he reached the light.
The light came from a wigwam, and he heard
people talking inside. He went to the doorway
and saw a woman sitting in the wife s place;
and farther on, before the fire, were two little
The woman looked up at him kindly, and
boys.
said, Enter, my child. Why are you out in the
cold?
"I
Where is your home?"
was wandering in the forest in search of
berries to eat; for I had great hunger,
"
said
the child. "And now I am lost."
"But where is your home, my
woman asked.
child?" the
"
Ah ! I have no home, the orphan boy said,
shaking his head.
Then the woman gave him food, and while he
ate of it, sitting beside the little boys,
woman the
said, "You
say that you have no home,
my child? Then stay here and be my child."
So the little orphan boy stayed there in the
forest in his new home, and he was happy all
the day long. He could not remember anyone s