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Updated: May 19, 2025
Sometimes a good hunter will back-track a trail several miles in order to assure the success of his hunt. "My son, if a moose is badly frightened by man-smell it may at first go off on the gallop and then settle down to a steady trot for four or five miles before it stops to listen but not to feed.
The travellers cooked their supper, and throwing themselves upon their couch of leaves, enjoyed that sound sleep which fatigue, health, and comfort give. When they awoke in the morning the horses were all gone. By examining the trail it seemed that they had taken the back-track in search of their homes.
"O God!" exclaimed Basil, in agony, "he is coming on the old track!" It was too true; for the next moment the hound, running on the back-track, bounded in among the feet of their horses. Here he stopped suddenly, throwing up his head, and uttering another howl of disappointment. Basil waved him back. He struck out again and followed the old trail, but with like success.
Indeed, he was so impressed that he decided to back-track the heroes' trail and count for himself just how many wolves the pack had numbered. So he got the would-be lumber-jacks for they were greenhorns from the city to point out for him their incoming trail, which he at once set out to back-track.
A really fine hound, however, like Buffalo Jones' famous Don, or Scott Teague's Sampson or Haught's Old Dan, would grow suspicious of a scent that gradually cooled, and would eventually give it up. Young hounds would back-track game as far as possible. After waiting a while we returned to our horses, and presently Edd came back with the pack. "Big bear, but cold trail.
In a few minutes the hounds came up, and in their eagerness passed some distance beyond the point, and then went still farther, looking for the lost trail. Then the fox hastened down, and, taking his back-track, fooled the dogs completely.
No sooner were they fairly out of sight than the hunters rose, and, remounting their horses, continued their way. "It's well-nigh dark," Dick said, "and I doubt if they will be able to make out our back-track when they get to the edge; at any rate they cannot follow it." They rode on until they found that their horses could no longer carry them, then, dismounting, led them by the bridle.
And remember, too, my son, that as a rule, when coming upon a fresh track, it is wiser to back-track it than to follow it up at once, as back-tracking will provide the hunter with about all the information he may require, as the back trail will tell him if the game was travelling fast or slow, whether it was fleeing in fright or feeding; and if feeding, whether it was feeding quietly or in haste; and if in haste, the twigs would be torn off instead of being clean cut.
"In view of three bandits in slouched hats, although all on the back-track and although I am convinced that it was but their astral apparitions with which you were favored I will venture to intrude my society until I can see you to the Briscoe bungalow." "Oh, there's no intrusion," she rejoined petulantly. "You must know I couldn't mean that!"
Dick, who had been with him, had, when the party was returning, gone out scouting on his own account, and had come across the back-track of the redskins.
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