- 
Whatever it 
was and wher- 
ever it came 
from I now 
determined to 
discover. The direction of the breeze was soon 
ascertained, and I started out to follow up the 
scent like a hound. I had walked about ten 
feet, with my nose tingling, when the odor sud- 
denly left me. I paused at a large maple -tree, 
and awaited the trail. It came. This time it 
proved to be a hot scent, in truth. I needed 
only to follow my nose around the trunk of the 
tree at my elbow to be brought face to face with 
my game. It was no banana peel, nor pineapple, 
