. St. Nicholas [serial] . og worked the trail for some time longer,followed until I reached a point on the side of but finally gave it up and went to the house,the ravine opposite the den, from which I com- By this time I thoroughly understood the action of the dog. Now I must watch for the the third day, as the fox and the dog startedas before, I carefully watched the place wherethe dog had lost the trail. Two hours later Isaw the fox, on his return trip, on the top of astone wall, at the place where the hound lostthe trail each time. The wall at this point wasso near the creek that th
. St. Nicholas [serial] . og worked the trail for some time longer,followed until I reached a point on the side of but finally gave it up and went to the house,the ravine opposite the den, from which I com- By this time I thoroughly understood the action of the dog. Now I must watch for the the third day, as the fox and the dog startedas before, I carefully watched the place wherethe dog had lost the trail. Two hours later Isaw the fox, on his return trip, on the top of astone wall, at the place where the hound lostthe trail each time. The wall at this point wasso near the creek that the fox could jump fromthe wall to the bed of the creek. The bankswere low for some distance, and I could see himin the shallow water, making his way towardthe den. As the banks became higher he waslost to view, and I turned the glass upon thecreek, which was fully exposed near the a little while he passed this point, and fartherup the creek came out upon the high groundand seated himself near a stump, carefully sur-. WATCHING THE HOUND IN THE VALLEY BELOW. manded a full view of the valley below, as wellas of the den. Here I concealed myself andawaited further developments. The sound of the hounds baying died awayin the distance, and for about an hour the still-ness was broken only by the occasional songof birds and the chirp of insects. Then againI heard the hound, and in a little while he ap-peared in sight in the valley below. He ap-parently had lost the trail, and so it proved, forin another half-hour he passed my place of con-cealment on the way to the house. I watcheduntil the middle of the afternoon, but saw no-thing more of the old fox. The next day I repeated the experiment, andwatched particularly for the appearance of thedog in the valley. I found that he lost thetrail in about the same place near the before this I had seen the fox comingup the creek near the den, which he passed, neverso much as turning his head, and I soon lostsight of him among
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