Show aas as just trying him out THE WEEKLY SHORT STORY by fly W H COLCLOUGH ileum to 0 on I 1 I 1 litre li Is no use los 1 TO are ire lost hope atut nt both pet get not 14 with alth only a fey few 11 it anyway aimed onder under the bat but ir logic never need to register 12 A bale mace it he be said 1101 sir burton a torether I 1 loa ou 18 ind lad I 1 will ill help elp A we e are done fur for inego ine go gilt chow buo how far for bot but 1 the direction go ca come to a river ill the stream flows t sure to come to A sty RAI th there ere until A get et help and ack ack track and zed Us LI com c hrtko on I 1 dont like ilie wa M ry way and V gild id ur mr burton the etonna sla in 41 me here tell g 1 unit bat but that I 1 2 HIM jackson M the old maas os ail the tile I 1 track rack in twenty d ile N wa t would we people he men at tile i 1 ati wa at n X it bant wa 1 allt the tile law jk vt into flits hi fl 5 on nag 8 ten northland in IS this 8 r arter after that year i JACL in ilk Burt burta olix big want plant had accepted an indita ilion to ro go moose hunting was old but be he wa was I 1 everlen e ed used to hunting wido wildest st bot botler bering iii about a guide gut in this territory nut but the unexpected hot ha happened night was coming they had been lost fre erat raf bouts houi houiland tand and the old nun was exhausted ind nd what had stured to a drizzling rain gave promise of turning into enow snow before morning 1 yes it seemed iii if it he had a right to the chance fr his hi life but in two minutes ninnies he was back beside the old man mail mr burton Im not going you can con stay where you like bit we se stay together end and it I 1 tie e so 90 out well go out together you fool jackson tie ti tl e old man a sued you rous must got go nut but jackson proceeded to break off uch such spruce bough ae as he could rather gather and make a rude shelter un der the trees it was vas cold no bra garments soaked socked the old roan man trem trembling biln up north the howling of a r three seconds an tip answer strangely and near echoed through tho a wooda A large tree not far away split with a it sound like a rifle they huddled together ra n best they could for warmth jackson li hered ed the old man stirred eti Vack jackson son I 1 hear bell bells be he aid said listen jackson jacksonl t dont you hear bells I 1 lets try apin jacaban Jack bAn I 1 think I 1 know now how bov to get ou out of this place rinee vainly jackson tried to pa pacify city the older man and find point out to him the he futility of trying to find the way through h a canadian forest foret at it night any hunter hunts reven even a tenderfoot knows knois the impossibility of such a task hut but the old man president of a 9 large business and used to having his orders promptly obeyed insisted I 1 ill stay here jackam thought and let the old fool go on alone hes crazy now and he let burton start out in the darkness hut but in ill a few minutes jackson wag foll follow oTting aa him look jackson fteres a light yes a light mr buton bu ba ton lie rat might tit as a welt well humor the wander wonder lops laps of ohp half crazed mind mindl But what ft as it there was a llant ere they tiey both crazy now ron rendered dered jaclson jackson as they stunt bled on through the forest it was a real U light ailt that shone and beck boned through the trees then he felt a strange change come over the totter tottering lu old roan man he ile straightened up and with resolute step marched toward the in ten paces they were in a small clearing in the center stood a cabin with smoke pouring from its atoe alne chimney A dog lifted his muzzle toward the sy and uttered a ia a ig drawn hol and then went rattling liti chain to bis his kennel jackson jacison pitched pit ched himself to see if he were anile the door to the tile hut but flew few open As A mr burton tramped in jackson say saw a middle aged man in short irettes and smoking his pipe youre late chief he aid said 1 I was afraid you were lost no no brown said burton 1 11 I sure lost you get lost with broncho howling like a wolf aery few minutes the way he always does when I 1 am out in 10 the weds even if it I 1 didat kno know my baj ft around in this wintry as well ja I 1 do no ao brown I 1 itrano lost but 1 I bai 4 young man I 1 want to nnie manager of my western branch I 1 was testing him out and brown hell bell do I 1 tell you he hell if do brown |