THE BOY AND THE SHEPHERD
... * By DENIS ATHERTON THE boy came out of the mist. He was a small figure, thin, with legs like dirty, pink sticks. His head was covered with a shock of matted hair crusted with white where the mist had settled. Silver rime outlined his eyes, frightened eyes that explored the moor, the bare, lonely, silent moor. For a long time he walked steadily into the mist, his step short and stumbling. ...