Lost in the Wilds: A Canadian Story

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It was an awful moment.
LOST IN THE WILDS
A CANADIAN STORY
BY ELEANOR STREDDER
LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN, & NEW YORK THOMAS NELSON AND SONS 1893
CONTENTS.
LOST IN THE WILDS.
CHAPTER I.
IN ACLAND'S HUT.
The October sun was setting over a wild, wide waste of waving grass, growing dry and yellow in the autumn winds. The scarlet hips gleamed between the whitening blades wherever the pale pink roses of summer had shed their fragrant leaves.
But now the brief Indian summer was drawing to its close, and winter was coming down upon that vast Canadian plain with rapid strides. The wailing cry of the wild geese rang through the gathering stillness.