He gave a shriek of dismay, and sprang up in search of the wanderers.
And finally, in this way, he did find the very same pair the wanderers had met!
After three or four days' journeying, the wanderers found themselves in a thick forest.
The dawn is up--the guest is gone, The cottage hearth is blazing still; Heaven pity all poor wanderers lone!
"Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton."
All night and all the next day, they rode, and it was midnight before they came to the town where the two wanderers had taken refuge.
Kit took her home, packed her box and bundled her into the coach which the Stranger brought, and away they went to find the wanderers.
Early in 1849 the sleepy quiet of Victoria, Vancouver Island, was disturbed by the arrival of straggling groups of ragged nondescript wanderers, who were neither trappers nor settlers.
The place to which they finally came was a town of wretched workmen who toiled all day in iron furnaces for little wages, and were almost as miserable and hungry as the wanderers themselves.