How to find out which way was north was the question, and it puzzled him sorely.

He knew the general course of all the creeks in that part of the country, but as they wind about in every direction it was impossible to get any information out of the one he was near.

It was his habit, when he wanted to solve any difficult problem, to sit down and think of it in all its bearings, and a very excellent habit that is too.

Nearly half our blunders, all through life, might be avoided if we would think carefully before acting; and nearly half the useful things we know, have been found out simply by somebody's thinking.

Sam sat down on a log and said to himself;-- "Now if there is anything in the woods which always or nearly always points in any one direction, I can find it by looking.