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keep making small semicircles down wind so as to 

 constantly cut the tracks and yet keep the animal 

 always to windward of him. Having come across 

 a track and made up your mind whether it is 

 pretty fresh, whether the beast is a large one 

 worth following, and whether it is settled down 

 and feeding quietly, you will not follow the track, 

 but go down wind and then gradually work up 

 wind again till you cut the tracks a second time. 

 Then you must make out whether the tracks are 

 fresher or older than the former, whether they 

 are tracks of the same moose or those of another, 

 and leave them again and work up, and cut them 

 a third time ; and so you go on gradually, always 

 trimming down wind and edging up wind again, 

 until, finally, you have quartered the whole 

 ground. 



Perhaps the moose is feeding upon a hardwood 

 ridge of beech and maples of, say, two or three 

 miles in length and a quarter of a mile in width. 

 Every square yard you must make good in the way 

 I have endeavoured to describe, before you pro- 

 ceed to go up to the moose. At length, by dint 

 of great perseverance and caution, you will have 

 so far covered the ground that you will know the 

 animal must be in some particular spot. Then 



