Chapter 11
Of the children lost in the forest and what happened to them
Adam AND THE Lumberjack returned to the cottage without incident. There they packed food into two leather bags and filled a pair of tin canteens from the stream that ran behind the house. Adam saw the Lumberjack kneel by the water's edge and examine some marks upon the damp ground, but he said nothing to Adam about them. Adam glanced at them in passing and thought that they looked like the tracks left by a big dog, or a wolf. There was a little water at the bottom of each, so Adam knew that they were recent.
The Lumberjack armed himself with his axe, a bow and a quiver of arrows, and a long knife. Finally, he took a short-bladed sword from a storage chest. After only the slightest pause to blow some of the dust from
