TRACKS AXD TRACKING 



side leap makes the trail seem to end. Where 

 he lands, the four foot-marks are usually so close 

 together that they can be almost covered with 

 the hand. He may leap directly into his 

 " form," or he may repeat the same maneuver 

 several times; but one thing is certain, a jack 

 which acts in this manner is never far from home. 

 If pursued during the daytime, he employs the 

 same tactics again and again to throw the pursuer 

 off the trail. At feeding places slight forms 

 are often observed, and to follow the trail lead- 

 ing from them means, as a rule, a tiring walk, 

 as those forms indicate that the jack has spent 

 the after-supper hours there. 



I have hunted with men who blamed their dogs 

 if they failed to catch a rabbit with a broken 

 foreleg. They evidently did not consider that 

 a broken foreleg is of very little consequence to 

 the running efficiency of that kind of animal. 

 One with an injured hind leg, however, can be 

 run down easily. 



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