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Tracks, Trailing and Signaling
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game into dense cover, the trailer's first business was to make sure that it did not go out the otherside. We went carefully around the pile; there were no tracks leading out.
"Now," I said, "if you will take the trouble to move that wood pile you will find in it the remains of the rabbit half devoured and the mink himself. At this moment he is no doubt curled up asleep."
As the pile was large and the conclusion more or less self-evident, my brother was content to accept my reading of the episode.
What About Winter Sleepers
Although so much is to be read in the wintry white, we cannot now make a full account of all the woodland four-foots, for there are some kinds that do not come out on snow sleep more or less all winter.