"There is a bright one low down, and then there is another one a little higher up, and farther to the right, but it is fainter." "It would be the bright one, I think," said Mary.

And then Abner, his eyes fixed upon the bright star, commenced to stride.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Turning squarely around to the left he again made seven paces.

And now he beckoned vigorously to Mary to come and dig.
For about ten minutes they dug, and then they laid bare a great mass of rock.