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Show DOS HUNTS GOAT FINDUOST BOY Collie Outclimbs Searchers on Mountain Side and His Barks Summon Help. WENT UP 1,000 FEET Little Fellow Happy After Night In the Woods, but Unable to Tell of Adventure and Hardships He Underwent. WInsted, Conn. Henry Tommlcn, 8 years old, and tho son of a farmer living In U10 town of Colcbrook, disappeared dis-appeared from his home one night Just before sunset. He was found next morning two miles away from his home, standing at the edge of a CHIT 1,000 feet high. The child's recovery alive Is due immediately to a collie, which was out with a searching party and was deflected from his duty by a wild goat which crosseil his path. In following the goat half way up a mountain side be saw the boy and his furious barking bark-ing was answered by U10 searching parly. Was Not Afraid. No one except the child knows through what adventures nnd dangers he passed that night, for ho is too young to glvo a connected account of Ills exploit and has slept almost continually con-tinually ever since he was found. He declares he did not sleep at all during the night, but Insists that he was not afraid, and would like to spend a night In the mountains again. All the men nnd women who could be spared from their homes near the Tammlen farm started out In search of little Henry that night after his father and mother had mado frantic attempts to learn by telephone If any ono had seen the child. The search was conducted In a thorough and systematic sys-tematic fashion nnd the mountainside was assigned to a party composed of the youngest nnd most nctlvc men. Such men as had good dogs took them along. They spent all night In the woods which line tho mountainside, built soverni Arcs to show tho child where they were, and from time to time called his name with megaphones. Found Little Henry Standing There. Not oven a footprint rewarded their search, tho dogs picked up no troll at aU, and toward morning a heavy rain added further discouragement to a situation which to most of the searchers began to appear hopeless. Thoy had found tho mountain such stiff climbing that a number of men dropped out of the search. Dog Gives Chase. John Foster, toward 5 o'clock In the I morning, was nbout to call his dog I and go down tho mountain when tho 1 dog spied a wild goat In the under- ' brush and mndo after It. The goat went from rock to rock at a merry ' pace, and Foster's young collie held I the chnso until tho goat had distanced 1 him completely. Ultimately tho collie Btopped at the I cilgo of 11 cliff which loomed over Foster's head, and from which, as Fos- ter thought, the animal was unublo 1 to mnko his way down. At least he I madd no attempt to return. j After n toilsome ascent Foster made his way to whero the colllo stood, still 1 harking furiously. And as Fostor reached tho top of tho cliff lib found 1 little .Henry standing there, wet through with rain but full of cheor 1 and smllos and apparently with no no- tlon that his absence from hume had t , cost any one a wink of sJeap. v |