here! yonder! to mislead any that might 

 follow on his track. For at times even the 

 hemlocks and the alders and the waters and 

 the leaves and the creaking boughs and the 

 dancing shadows all seem to conspire to 

 shield the innocent Wood Folk from the 

 hostile eyes and hands of those that pur- 

 sue them. And that is one reason why it 

 is so hard to see game in the woods. 



The big moose had fooled me that time. 

 When he knew that I was following him he 

 ran far ahead, and then circled swiftly back 

 to stand motionless in a hillside thicket 

 within twenty yards of the trail that he had 

 made scarcely an hour agone. There he 

 could see perfectly, without being seen, what 

 it was that was following him. When I 

 came by, following swiftly and silently the 

 deep tracks in the snow, he let me pass 

 below him while he took a good look and 

 a sniff at me; then he glided away like a 

 shadow in the opposite direction. 



V~"' 



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