CHAPTER II 



Tracks in the Sand 



''In the sand of the hillocks by the loud sounding ocean 

 He followed their tracks at the break of the day.'' 



— Anon. 



IN "Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes" I had 

 something to say of tracks and tracking 

 in the dunes, illustrated by photographs. 

 Since this book was published I have continued 

 with ever increasing interest to track the deer and 

 the fox, the skunk and the mouse, the gull and 

 the crow, the toad and the grasshopper and others 

 of their ilk in the dunes, and shall here record 

 some of my findings. One never knows where 

 one may come on an interesting story in the sand 

 or one requiring some ingenuity to unravel. 



Deer tracks are common in the dunes. In 

 1913, I wrote that this animal "thanks to the well 

 enforced protective laws, is more abundant in 

 densely settled eastern Massachusetts than it has 



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