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Do you remember, Mary, the day we got stuck up at the top of the Westmoreland, and had to unhitch the horses, and how I stood in the middle of the creek and yanked the carriage round while you held them? That was the day we heard the mountain lion, and there were fresh bear-tracks all over the mud, you remember." "Good gracious!" cried Mrs. Watson, quite pale; "what an awful place!
Long talked to him through the window and introduced Field when he came along: "Mr. Meadow, Cap'n Charner. I'm showing him bear-tracks and things around the pond." "How do you do, captain?" said Field. "Don't know me in the part of Neptune, eh?" "Oho!" said the captain, glancing aside from the wheel. "It's you, is it? Where's your friend? Trapp," he continued, "you'd better take Mr.
I wish I had something to eat!" One fine winter's day Fatty Coon came upon the queerest tracks in the snow. They were huge a great deal bigger, even, than bear-tracks, which Fatty had sometimes seen, for once in a while, before the weather grew too cold, and he fell into his winter's sleep, a bear would come down into the valley from his home on Blue Mountain.
Sometimes the first road is a river the track is already cut. Try to find out where the settlements in America were in the very early days before 1800. You will find them along the Hudson, the Juanita, the St. Lawrence, the James, the Mississippi Rivers. But when these are left, men follow the squirrel-tracks and bear-tracks, or the paths of hunters, or the roads of Roman soldiers.
Traps were built, under advice, where there was not one chance in a thousand of catching anything, and bogus bear-tracks, made with a neatly-executed model by an ingenious guide, who preferred loafing about camp to moving it, kept the expedition from seeking more promising country. The editor became tired of waiting for his big sensation and ordered me home.
The woman went to the north kitchen window and to her great astonishment saw that her husband had not been joking. There were bear-tracks, and also two large paw-prints upon the window-sill that told of a silent watcher of their domestic fireside.
Of wild animals, such as bears, panthers, wolves, wildcats, etc., we neither saw nor heard any in the Adirondacks. "A howling wilderness," Thoreau says, "seldom ever howls. The howling is chiefly done by the imagination of the traveler." Hunter said he often saw bear-tracks in the snow, but had never yet met Bruin.
The bear, smarting from his scalds and with all his preconceived ideas about women overthrown, betook himself in haste to another and remoter hunting-ground. A good deal of his hair came off, in patches, and for a long time he had a rather poor opinion of himself. When, for over a week, there had been no more raids upon barn or chicken-roost, and no more bear-tracks about the garden, Mrs.
When Alec visited his trap the next day, he did not go near enough to see the bear-tracks in the fresh dirt about the door, for he did not care to leave fresh man-scent in its vicinity; so he was rather discouraged with the failure of his efforts. The trap had now been set for a week and nothing apparently had been near it.
On getting a little closer, however, they doubted this; and, now recollecting the resemblance which they had noticed in the snows of Lapland between the footsteps of a human being and those of a bear it occurred to them that these might also be bear-tracks though they knew that the tracks of the American bear would be slightly different from those of his European cousin.
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