They were young boys, unused to mountain
climbing, and their friends were anxious. It was found that Dash
had followed them; and just as some one was to be sent in search of
them, a boy from the stables brought the information that Fishin'
Jimmy had started up the mountain after them as the storm broke.
"Said if he could n't be a fisher o' men, mebbe he knowed nuff to
ketch boys," went on our informant, seeing nothing more in the
speech, full of pathetic meaning to us who knew him, than the idle
talk of one whom many considered "lackin'." Jimmy was old now, and
had of late grown very feeble, and we did not like to think of him
out in that wild storm. And now suddenly the lost boys themselves
appeared through the opening in the woods opposite the house, and
ran in through the sleet, now falling more quietly. They were wet,
but no worse apparently for their adventure, though full of
contrition and distress at having lost sight of the dog. He had
rushed off into the woods some hours before, after a rabbit or
hedgehog, and had never returned.
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