CHAPTER III.
COMMENCING BUSINESS.
When they reached home, Harry and Kate put together what little money they had, and found that they could buy food enough to last Aunt Matilda for several days.

This Harry procured and carried down to the old woman that day.

He also gathered and piled up inside of her cabin a good supply of wood.

Fortunately, there was a spring very near her door, so that she could get water without much trouble.
Harry and Kate determined that they would commence business in earnest the next morning, and, as this was not the season for game, they determined to go to work to gather sumac-leaves.
Most of us are familiar with the sumac-bush, which grows nearly all over the United States.

Of course we do not mean the poisonous swamp-sumac, but that which grows along the fences and on the edges of the woods.