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CHAPTER V
' ADVENTURES BY THE WAY

OR an instant the boy stood still-
in amazement, but this little
adventure filled him with con-
fidence in the hedgehog and his
advice, so he pushed boldly on with his
handkerchief still in his hand. He found
now that he was certainly getting near the
forest, which only seemed about a hundred
yards off, when, brushing aside a thin bush
of gorse which was growing over the path
which he was following, he found himself on
the very edge of a huge pit, which seemed to
be full of water, and was much too wide to
jump. He looked to the right and left, but
the pit seemed to reach quite across the
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