“JT WONDER WHICH WAY HOME IS?”

“OHWAPTER XXXVEL.

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NCLE Nat had taken the boys to the sea-shore and Rick had

improved the first opportunity that offered to occupy a sand-
hummock, and, bare-headed and bare-footed, he looked off upon the
waters sweeping away to the blue, misty line of the horizon. He
was talking to himself:

“Uncle Nat says we are going to leave soon. He wants to
show us a sheep-farm and some gold-mines, and then we are going
to China. I wonder which way home is!”

There he reclined, watching the birds in their flight, a distant
sail, and the wide, level sea. He rose finally and began to hunt

for Ralph, soon finding _ him.
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