s; and
the noise of the night birds alarmed him to such an extent that he was
obliged to awaken the old monkey for company.

But the night passed despite his fears, as all nights will, whether
a boy is out in the woods alone or tucked up in his own little bed at
home. In the morning Toby made all possible haste to get away, for each
moment that he stayed now made him more impatient to be moving toward
home.

He washed himself as quickly as possible, ate his breakfast with the
most unseemly haste, and, taking up his bundles and the monkey, once
more started, as he supposed, in the direction from which he had entered
the woods.

Toby walked briskly along, in the best possible spirits, for his running
away was now an accomplished fact, and he was going toward Uncle Daniel
and home just as fast as possible. He sang "Old Hundred" through five
or six times by way of showing his happiness. It is quite likely that
he would have sung something a little more lively had he known anything
else; but "Old Hundred" was the extent of his musical education, and he
kept repeating that, which was quite as satisfactory as if he had been
able to go through with every opera that was ever written.

The monkey would jump from his shoulder into the branches above, run
along on the trees for a short distance, and then wait until Toby came
along, when he would drop down on his shoulder suddenly, and in every
other way of displaying monkey delight he showed that he was just as
happy as it was possible.

Toby trudged on in this contented way for nearly an hour, and every
moment expected to step out to the edge of the woods, where he could see
houses and men once more. But instead of doing so the forest seemed
to grow more dense, and nothing betokened his approach to the village.
There was a great fear came into Toby's heart just then, and for a
moment he halted in helpless perplexity. His lips began to quiver, his
face grew white, and his hand trembled so that the old monkey took hold
of one of his fingers and looked at it wonderingly.

XIX. MR STUBBS'S MISCHIEF, AND HIS SAD FATE

Toby had begun to realize that he was lost in the woods, and the thought
was sufficient to cause alarm in the mind of one much older than the
boy. He said to himself that he would keep on in the direction he was
then traveling for fifteen minutes; and as he had no means of computing
the time he sat down on a log, took out the bit of pencil with which he
h