LITTLE BEASTS AND HOW TO FIND THEM 



it aright. It is simply the game played by the 

 detective, and just as intensely fascinating when 

 once you have learned the first few moves. For 

 as the track grows fresher as you follow it, you 

 must stop looking for it at your feet, but away in 

 front of you, for the further you can discern it 

 in its windings among the trees, the more pros- 

 pect there is of coming upon the one that made 

 it unawares, and with this in view the best track 

 to follow is one that leads you towards the wind. 



The snow often reveals curious and interesting 

 things that would otherwise escape notice. Some- 

 times I have observed that practically all the 

 freshly made tracks in a certain locality pointed 

 the same way, — foxes, weasels, rabbits, squirrels, 

 and partridges, all headed in the same direction 

 without any apparent cause and independent of 

 the season. 



The birds of prey in their hunting write the 

 most entertaining histories of their successes and 

 failures on its surface ; sometimes just the marks 



