range way, and just then I
heard far off a church clock strike, which I knew must be in the town I
had left behind.

16. This was a help, for I now knew that if I turned my back on the
place from which the sound came, I should be right in keeping straight
on.

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_Write:_ The storm grew worse. When the man had lost his way on the
moor, he saw the dog which he had fed at the inn sitting behind him.

Questions: 1. What did more than one person say as the man
began his walk? 2. As he began to cross the moor, what did
he see? 3. Did the weather grow any better? 4. What did he
see sitting close to him when he turned round? 5. What did
the dog seem to say? 6. What did the traveller hear far off?

4. TRUSTY FINDS THE WAY.

1. I pointed out to the dog the way I wished to go, and with a wag of
his tail, the wise creature trotted on slowly in front. He seemed to
feel that he had the charge of me and had been trusted.

[Illustration: A BITTER NIGHT.]

2. We had not gone far before he gave a whine, and coming quite close
to me, stared in my face, and changed his course. He seemed to beg me
to turn aside to the right.

3. I went as he asked me, and as I was going, I tried with my stick to
poke the ground from which the dog had wished to turn. I wanted to know
why he was not willing to let me tread just there.

4. I found that a deep pond, over which a slight cover of ice and snow
were spread, was close beside us. It was an old pit in which water had
frozen.

5. Had I set my foot on it I must have sunk down and I never could have
risen. "A few inches closer to the edge and I must have been drowned!"
cried I aloud, and did not forget to thank God for the escape.

6. The dog now stopped a few feet off as if to watch whether I was
coming, and again trotted forward as I praised him and began to follow.

7. Soon he gave a second whine, and again seemed to wish me to turn
aside. I trod in his footprints, and again was safe. I was now nearly
ready to faint from cold.

8. "Go on, good dog," said I to my faithful guide, "lead me home
quickly, or I shall die." He gave a hoarse bark in reply, as if to bid
me keep a good heart.

9. I was just falling down, for I could walk no further, when he gave a
short, eager bark of joy; at least it seemed like joy, I thought, but
my ears were deaf, and my eyes dim.

10. I gave one last hopeless glance around, and saw some