E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Jane Moss, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38421-h.htm or 38421-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38421/pg38421-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38421/38421-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/littleboylost00huds A LITTLE BOY LOST * * * * * UNUSUAL BOOKS _FOR BOYS AND GIRLS_ THREE AND THE MOON BY JACQUES DOREY _DECORATED BY BORIS ARTZYBASHEFF_ THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY BIBLE STORIES _SELECTED AND DECORATED BY JAMES DAUGHERTY_ THE RUNAWAY SARDINE _TOLD AND ILLUSTRATED BY EMMA L. BROCK_ THE THREE MULLA-MULGARS BY WALTER DE LA MARE _ILLUSTRATED BY DOROTHY LATHROP_ COME HITHER BY WALTER DE LA MARE _DECORATED BY ALEC BUCKELS_ * * * * * [Illustration: HE IN TURN, LEANING OVER THE ROCK STARED BACK INTO MARTIN'S FACE WITH HIS IMMENSE FISHY EYES.] A LITTLE BOY LOST by W · H · HUDSON Author of "Green Mansions," Etc. Illustrated by Dorothy · P · Lathrop [Illustration] New York Alfred · A · Knopf MCMXXXVI Copyright 1920 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages or reproduce not more than three illustrations in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper. Published September 18, 1920 Manufactured in the United States of America _Contents_ I THE HOME ON THE GREAT PLAIN, 13 II THE SPOONBILL AND THE CLOUD, 20 III CHASING A FLYING FIGURE, 29 IV MARTIN IS FOUND BY A DEAF OLD MAN, 33 V THE PEOPLE OF THE MIRAGE, 44 VI MARTIN MEETS WITH SAVAGES, 60 VII ALONE IN THE GREAT FOREST, 68 VIII THE FLOWER AND THE SERPENT, 76 IX THE BLACK PEOPLE OF THE SKY, 86 X A TROOP OF WILD HORSES, 95 XI THE LADY OF THE HILLS, 109 XII THE LITTLE PEOPLE UNDERGROUND, 117 XIII THE GREAT BLUE WATER, 129 XIV THE WONDERS OF THE HILLS, 135 XV MARTIN'S EYES ARE OPENED, 144 XVI THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST, 153 XVII THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA, 163 XVIII MARTIN PLAYS WITH THE WAVES, 173 NOTE, 184 _Illustrations_ He in turn, leaning over the rock stared back into Martin's face with his immense fishy eyes _Frontispiece_ PAGE