LEFT from Lord Baden-Powell, Girl Guiding; The Official Handbook,
Pearson, London 1923 (1918) A guide should keep her eyes open for foot
and wheel tracks. Much can be learnt from studying the mud and trodden
earth. "Information of that kind has often been of the greatest value
in tracing out a criminal, but so many people go along with their eyes
shut and never notice things."
RIGHT Ingenious way of depicting the tracks of the bear, from W.H.Hohberg,
Georgica curiosa... Nuremburg 1682 and an encyclopaedia
of country life including passages on the Hunt.
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