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night passed & he came not.

     What is become of our father? exclaimed one word scratched out. 
     We must go seek our father, cried the other.
     If we seek him diligently, we shall be sure to find him, replied the first.
     And so they took up their bows & arrows & went to seek their father.
     Said one, pointing eastward -- Perhaps he is in this direction.
     And he shot an arrow eastward; but the arrow returned and stuck in the ground before them.
     Said the other, pointing northward, Perhaps he is in this direction?
     And he shot an arrow northward; but this arrow word scratched out returned word scratched out as did the former, and they exclaimed, "Lo, he is not there!"
     "Is it hitherward that he is gone?" observed they, pointing towards the west; but the arrow returned from the west also, and they cried, despondingly, No, it is not this way!" And when they tried the South, the