Friday, 15 October 2010

Woodcraft and mountain lore



      You may ask if a month in the wilds with that great scout taught me much of woodcraft and mountain lore; I can reply with confidence that bt the time we reached Fort Laramie, I could deduce by the sight of a broken twig that someone had stepped on it, and when I saw a great pile of dung on the prarie I knew at once that a buffalo had let drive.


Flashman and the Redskins, p.198, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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