126 WAITING IN THE WILDERNESS 



"Look first of all where the horse was backed. 

 He scraped the earth and threw the gravel in the 

 direction he was going. His short steps show 

 that he was going slowly. Had he been moving 

 slowly and moving toward the stream he would 

 not have scraped the earth with his feet nor 

 scattered gravel about. The grass leans both 

 in front and behind the spots in which he put 

 his feet down. This would not have happened 

 had he simply passed downhill. When a horse 

 is travelling through grass, unless this is more 

 than half his height, it is tilted and leans back- 

 ward behind each footprint. Let a man walk 

 through the same grass and it will be pushed and 

 slightly tilted forward. 



"What that fellow did after crossing the 

 stream into the grassy space was to ride through 

 the grass zigzag, as if allowing his horse to graze, 

 then came over and crossed the stream again. 

 Riding a short distance up the hill, he turned 

 and went down and recrossed the stream at the 

 place where he first crossed into the grassy space. 

 Again the horse zigzagged through the grass and 

 again crossed the stream, going up the hill, close 

 to the first line of tracks. This made it appear 

 as though two grazing horses had come out of 

 the grass and gone off together. The third time 

 he returned to the stream at his first crossing. 

 But this time he did not cross. To hide his trail 



