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WIDESPREAD DESOLATION. As the boys rode onward a sharp and bracing wind blew in their faces. The hoar still lay on the grass, and the many pools at which the sheep were accustomed to drink were coate…
EDWIN'S DISCOVERY. Edwin rubbed off the mud from the boss at the point of the gable, and gazed upon the hideous face, which was neither bird's nor man's, but the same, the very same, w…
FEEDING THE HUNGRY. As Edwin crossed the desolated bush, the morning sun lit up the marvellous cloud-banks with a flush of pink and gold that held him spell-bound with the strangeness of the sight, u…
RAIN AND FLOOD. Edwin felt a cold shiver run over him as Lawford made this announcement. "Something to tell me!" he exclaimed. "Oh, please speak out!" "Do you see those spade…
WHO HAS BEEN HERE? "Edwin," said Mr. Lee, when he saw his son shivering beside him in the gray of the wintry morning, "what is the matter with you? Have you had enough to eat?" &q…
LOSS AND SUSPICION. The great hole which Lawford had made in the mud was not yet filled up. He had walled the sides with broken branches, damming up the mud behind him as he dug his way to the roots …
EDWIN IN DANGER. When Mr. Hirpington came up he found his little English friend in earnest argument with the Maori warrior. Nga-Hepé's looks were excited and wild. He was carrying the famous gre…
WHERO TO THE RESCUE. The busy sounds of trampling feet, the many voices breaking the silence of the past days, roused Edwin effectually, and then he discovered that the door of the room in which he h…
MET AT LAST. The boys were recovering their equanimity, when the stiff sea-breeze blowing in their faces scattered the rushes and sent them sailing down the stream. Whero drew his canoe to the bank a…
JUST IN TIME. "What an ass Lawford must have been not to put on father's belt! If he had, we could not have got it away from him," said Edwin, as the two seated themselves on the sunny…
