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 where. Now circle around your handkerchief, first in small circles, then in larger ones, peering carefully to right and left, for these narrow trails can scarcely be seen except lengthwise. You must look directly into them to find them, generally. You have your landmark handkerchief to keep you from wandering away from the spot, you see. Now there, within a circumference probably of twenty feet and almost certainly within fifty, will be your path. You can usually find it within five minutes, and yet from lack of this simple bit of knowledge, many a man has been hopelessly lost."

The lost-and-found-one listened with absorbed attention, still mopping at intervals his moist and beaming countenance.

"Holy Peter!" he exclaimed, after a moment of ruminating silence. "Sounds simple. Stop in your tracks the moment you know you are lost. Make a landmark. Find your path and get back. Don't get lost any more than you are."