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Title: Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880
An Illustrated Weekly

Author: Various

Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29148]

Language: English

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Produced by Annie McGuire

[Illustration: HARPER'S

YOUNG PEOPLE

AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]

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VOL. I.--NO. 47. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
CENTS.

Tuesday, September 21, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
$1.50 per Year, in Advance.

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[Illustration: TED AND KITTY MAKING A FIRE.]

HOW TED AND KITTY CAMPED OUT.

BY EMILY H. LELAND.

Kitty was eight years old, and Ted was seven. They had always lived on a
large farm, and knew all about birds and squirrels, and the different
kinds of trees, and how to make bonfires and little stone ovens; and
they could shoot with bows and arrows, and swim, and climb trees, and
split kindlings, and take care of chickens and ducks and turkeys, and do
a great many jolly and useful things which city children hardly get even
a chance to do. Well, once when they went on a visit with some cousins
to an uncle's on the other side of "Big Woodsy," as they called the
mountain, they did not get home that night.

The uncle thought they had gone home, and the father and mother thought
they had remained overnight at the uncle's. So nothing was done about it
until noon next day, when the uncle came jogging over on horseback to
look at a cow he thought of buying, and the mother asked him if Ted and
Kitty were not making too long a visit.

Then the uncle said, "Good gracious! they are not at our house; they
started for home last night, along with the Elderkins, I think."

Then the mother turned very pale, and said, in a faint voice, "They are
lost!"

"Oh no," said the uncle, "not a bit of it. The Elderkins coaxed 'em home
with them, of course. I'll ride round their way when I go back and start
'em home."

But the pale look wouldn't leave the mother's face, and