Mounted on one of John Rutledge's good horses, Ann set out to search the woods for her pig.
She had gotten some distance without finding any trace of it, when she heard the cry of a child. Following the direction from which the sound came, she soon discovered a forlorn little specimen of a girl, with a black and purple eye, who was looking about in different directions as if not knowing which way to go, and was crying.
"What's the matter?" asked Ann Rutledge, "are you lost?"
"Yes," the child answered.
"Who are you—and where do you live?"
"I'm Katy Kelly, and I live at Muddy Point. Our pig is lost again," she sobbed. "We got it home once, but the pen broke, and now it's gone again."
"I'm looking for a pig, too," Ann said. "Get up on my horse, and we'll look a little and then I'll take you home."
The child climbed on, and the search continued. But the child no longer had eyes for anything but Ann Rutledge.
"How did you hurt your eye?" Ann asked kindly.