FOLLOWING 
below. And all that is much to learn 
from a tiny triangle in the moss, with 
imaginary a, h, cs clinging to the 
dried moss blossoms. 
How careful one had to be ! Every 
shift of wind, every cloud shadow had 
to be noted. The lesson of a dew- 
drop splashed from a leaf in the early 
morning; the testimony of a crushed 
flower, or a broken brake, or a bend- 
ing grass blade ; the counsel of a bit 
of bark frayed from a birch tree, with 
a shred of deer-velvet clinging to it, 
— all these were vastly significant 
and interesting. Every copse and 
hiding place and cathedral aisle of the 
big woods in front must be searched 
with quiet eyes far ahead, as one 
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STIL 
HUNTING 
