n turning himself round and round.

"It's as simple as A B C," he continued. "You point the short hand at
the sun, then you bisect the segment between the short hand and the
twelve, and thus you get the north."

He worried up and down for a while, then he fixed it.

"Now I've got it," he said; "that's the north, where that wasps' nest is.
Now give me the map."

We handed it to him, and seating himself facing the wasps, he examined
it.

"Todtmoos from here," he said, "is south by south-west."

"How do you mean, from here?" asked George.

"Why, from here, where we are," returned Harris.

"But where are we?" said George.

This worried Harris for a time, but at length he cheered up.

"It doesn't matter where we are," he said. "Wherever we are, Todtmoos is
south by south-west. Come on, we are only wasting time."

"I don't quite see how you make it out," said George, as he rose and
shouldered his knapsack; "but I suppose it doesn't matter. We are out
for our health, and it's all pretty!"

"We shall be all right," said Harris, with cheery confidence. "We shall
be in at Todtmoos before ten, don't you worry. And at Todtmoos we will
have something to eat."

He said that he, himself, fancied a beefsteak, followed by an omelette.
George said that, personally, he intended to keep his mind off the
subject until he saw Todtmoos.

We walked for half an hour, then emerging upon an opening, we saw below
us, about two miles away, the village through which we had passed that
morning. It had a quaint church with an outside staircase, a somewhat
unusual arrangement.

The sight of it made me sad. We had been walking hard for three hours
and a half, and had accomplished, apparently, about four miles. But
Harris was delighted.

"Now, at last," said Harris, "we know where we are."

"I thought you said it didn't matter," George reminded him.

"No more it does, practically," replied Harris, "but it is just as well
to be certain. Now I feel more confidence in myself."

"I'm not so sure about that being an advantage," muttered George. But I
do not think Harris heard him.

"We are now," continued Harris, "east of the sun, and Todtmoos is south-
west of where we are. So that if--"

He broke off. "By-the-by," he said, "do you remember whether I said the
bisecting line of that segment pointed to the north or to the south?"

"You said it pointed to the north," replied George.

"Are you positive?" persisted Harris