[The Boy Hunters by Captain Mayne Reid]@TWC D-Link bookThe Boy Hunters CHAPTER FOURTEEN 9/22
This required all Basil's strength, for the bird was one of the largest size--a forty-pounder. As soon as the hunter had made all fast, he leaped back into his saddle, and commenced riding--Where? Ay, that was the question which he asked himself before his horse had advanced three lengths of his body--where was he going? All at once the thought came into his mind that _he was lost_! Groves of timber were on all sides of him.
They were like each other; or, if they differed, he had not in his wild gallop noted that difference, and it could not serve to direct him now.
He had not the slightest idea of the point whence he had come, and therefore knew not in what direction to go.
He saw and felt that _he was lost_! My young reader, you cannot conceive the thoughts that come over one who is lost upon the prairies.
Such a situation has appalled the stoutest hearts ere now.
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