| Vol. II.—No. 77. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
| Tuesday, April 19, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
[Begun in No. 58 of Harper's Young People, December 7.]
TOBY TYLER;
OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.
BY JAMES OTIS.
Chapter XIX.
MR. STUBBS'S MISCHIEF, AND HIS SAD FATE.
Toby had begun to realize that he was lost in the woods, and the thoughtwas sufficient to cause alarm in the mind of any one much older[Pg 386] thanthe boy. He said to himself that he would keep on in the direction hewas then travelling for fifteen minutes; and as he had no means ofcomputing the time, he sat down on a log, took out the bit of pencilwith which he had written the letter to Ella, and multiplied sixty byfifteen. He knew that there were sixty seconds to the minute, and thathe could ordinarily count one to each second, therefore, when he learnedthat there were nine hundred seconds in fifteen minutes, he resolved towalk as nearly straight ahead as possible, until he should have countedthat number.