AN AFFECTING TALE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 153, 7 April 1876, Page 8

AN AFFECTING TALE.

A very narrow escape is said by the ' Towns ville Times' to have been made by a man and boy who went out from the Houghton Hotel in search of horses. The man was Cobb and Co.'s groom, and he was accompanied by a little fellow of about seven years of age. They went on day after day. and it was not till they had been out five days that the boy began to complain. He first then said he was hungry and would like to go home. After a day or two more he seemed to begin to doubt the trustworthiness of his companion, and asked him if he knew the way home. The man told him he did not, and the boy said he would ask God to show them the way, and immediately knelt down and did so. On the morning of the eleventh day they came across a waterhole which the man thought he knew, but he afterwards found that he was in a strange place. Both were very much disheartened, and the ima said to the boy that he had no hope of getting home, and that their graves would be by the waterhole. The youngster said, " I cannot die here ; what will my mother 4* ? I'll ask God again to bring us home." They started forward, and on the evening of the same day struck country that was familiar, and got home on the following day without any other assistance or adventure. They were thus twelve days lost in the bush, and the pluck of the little boy in the awfully embarrassing circumstances which prostrated the energies even of the grown man cannot be too highly praised.