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Igure pointing to the trail! I hastened to his side and saw that the
moccasin prints ceased in the middle of an open, bare, muddy place and
beyond were nothing but the dog-like tracks of the wolves. I looked up
and all around; there were no overhanging branches that a man could
swing himself upon, no stones that he could leap upon--nothing but the
straggling bunches of ferns; but here in this open spot the Wild Hunter
vanished. We walked back in silence, for I had nothing to say, and Pete
did not volunteer any further information. CHAPTER VI To have one's nose
all but broken, both eyes blackened and a twisted ankle is a sad
misfortune wherever it occurs, but when such a thing happens to a fellow
many weary miles from the nearest human habitation and in a howling
wilderness it might be considered anything but pleasant. Yet, strange as
it may appear, among the most pleasant and precious memories I have
stored away in my mind, only to be tapped upon special occasions, is the
memory of the glorious days spent nursing my bruises and lolling around
that far-away camp. Sometimes I listened to the quaint yarns of my
unique and interesting guide or idly watched the changing colors and
effects which the sun and the atmosphere produced on the snow-capped
mountains of Darlinkel's Park. I made friends with our little neighbors
the rock-chuck, whose home was in the base of the cliff back of the
spring, and became intimate with the golden chipmunk and its pretty
little black and white cousin, the four-striped chipmunk, both of which
were common and remarkably tame about camp. Back of the camp in the dark
shade of the evergreens there was a bark mo