The horse's
track was already hardly visible in places where the snow did not lie deep.
About twelve o'clock a troop of ten or twelve thousand head of buffalo encumbered the
track. The locomotive, slackening its speed, tried to clear the way with its cow-catcher; but the mass of animals was too great.
There were boys' races and girls' races, races of young women and old women, of fat men and fat women, sack races and three-legged races, and the contestants strove around the small
track through a Bedlam of cheering supporters.
This
track, as you perceive, was made by a rider who was going from the direction of the school."
Even then it was no easy matter to keep to the right
track, for the moon had not yet risen, and the high cliffs on either side made the obscurity more profound.
As Adam was engaged on his own researches regarding Lady Arabella, it was only natural that there should be some crossing of each other's
tracks. This is what did actually happen.
The combatants advanced along the trodden
tracks, nearer and nearer to one another, beginning to see one another through the mist.
Next morning the king sent his people out to seek the
track, but it was all in vain, for in every street poor children were sitting, picking up peas, and saying: 'It must have rained peas, last night.'
When the police is at fault, it declares that it is on the
track; and the government patiently awaits the day when it comes to say, with a sneaking air, that the
track is lost."
A HUNTER, not very bold, was searching for the
tracks of a Lion.
Taking a wide circuit round the ultimate
tracks, so as to leave them undisturbed for further examination, the man proceeded to the spring, the girl following, weak and terrified.
As soon as I reached comparatively level ground I urged my mount into a canter and continued this, where the going permitted, until, close upon dusk, I discovered the point where other
tracks joined those of Powell.