54 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES to him. He tried another path and another; hut go where he -would, he could not find his way out of the forest. He was lost. The child wandered on and on, and after awhile it grew dark, and he was tired and lonely —for he was only five years old. He wandered on in the dark, and at last he saw a light glim¬ mering through the trees. He followed the gleam until he reached the light. The light came from a wigwam, and he heard people talking inside. He went to the doorway and saw a woman sitting in the wife's place; and farther on, before the fire, were two little hoys. The woman looked up at him kindly, and said, "Enter, my child. "Why are you out in the cold? Where is your home ?" "I was wandering in the forest in search of berries to eat; for I had great hunger," said the child. "And now I am lost." "But where is your home, my child?" the woman asked. '' Ah! I have no home,'' the orphan boy said, shaking his head. Then the woman gave him food, and while he ate of it, sitting beside the little boys, the woman said, "You say that you have no home, my child? Then stay here and be my child." So the little orphan boy stayed there in the forest in his new home, and he was happy all the day long. He could not remember anyone's