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There was absolutely no cover about except the ant-heap, which was some three hundred yards from the rhinoceros upon his up-wind side.
Have you felt the short hairs rising When the moon slipped out of sight, And the chink of steel on rock explained That footfall in the night? Have you seen a gray boar sniff up-wind In the mauve of waking day? Have you heard a mad crowd pause and think? Have you seen all Hell to pay?
All the county was invited to come, on a given morning, to the main road north of the county, with the intention of sweeping the whole region up-wind and at length driving the Rabbits into a huge corral of close wire netting. Dogs were barred as unmanageable, and guns as dangerous in a crowd; but every man and boy carried a couple of long sticks and a bag full of stones.
"Don't want you whinnying to any strange horse." He got out of the saddle and led his pony for some rods. The brush was thick and there was no bridle-path. He feared to go farther without knowing what and who was ahead, and he tied the grey taking pattern by Frances and tying his head up-wind. The young fellow hesitated about taking the shotgun he had used in the jack-rabbit hunt.
He was too wise to jump to conclusions but slipped back from his watch-post and ran in a long semi-circle about the herd, but having made out that there was no cowpuncher nearby, he came back to his original place of vantage and resumed his observations. A beautiful black stallion wandered up-wind from the rest and another, younger horse, was on the other side of the herd.
He was following his nose to many good and eatable things, and therefore going up-wind. This noise behind was so peculiar that he wanted to smell it, and to do that he swung along back over the clamor, then descended to the down-wind side, and thus he came on the trail of the hunters and their dog. His nose informed him at once.
He was simply hunting in the direction from which the Merry Little Breezes were blowing because he knew that Lightfoot had gone in that direction, and he also knew that if Lightfoot were still ahead of him, his scent could not be carried to Lightfoot. He was doing what is called "hunting up-wind." Lightfoot kept perfectly still and watched the hunter disappear among the trees.
We went warily, with our heads ever turned up-wind, hardly daring to dig for a root lest the sound of our digging should fill our ears so that we would not hear man's approach; and when I stripped a bit of bark from a fallen log to look for beetles underneath, and it crackled noisily as it came away, my father growled angrily at me and mother cuffed me from behind.
Pratt Sanderson got into his saddle without much trouble and the girl whistled for Molly. "I'll throw that lion over my saddle," she said. "Molly won't mind it much especially if you hold her bridle with her head up-wind." "All right, Miss Rugley," the young man returned. "My name is Pratt Sanderson I don't know that you know it." "Very well, Mr. Sanderson," she repeated.
The horses had settled down to the cropping of buffalo grass, only the buckskin stallion, who had taken a position on a little knoll, remaining on guard. The surprising thing about this band was that each and every member seemed riderless. Not until he had taken long up-wind sniffs was the thoroughbred convinced of this fact.
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