My horse was traveling practically unguided as I knew that I had probably less knowledge of the exact location of the trail to the pass than he, and thus it happened that he entered a defile which led to the summit of the range and not to the pass which I had hoped would carry me to the valley and to safety.
My first knowledge that I was on the wrong trail came when I heard the yells of the pursuing savages suddenly grow fainter and fainter far off to my left.
Now, I, Little Foot, come to the rock," said Mowgli, running up his
trail.
In an hour he struck the
trail again, and coming to earth examined the soil minutely.
Majestic and terrible, regally careless of his surroundings, the king of beasts strode down the beaten
trail.
Slowly the gray light came stealing through the gloom, imperceptibly at first, so that it was almost with surprise that they noticed the vague loom of the
trail underfoot.
As Walt finished and looked to his wife for approval, a man came into view around the turn of the
trail.
Old John Tarwater became a striking figure on a
trail unusually replete with striking figures.
Even to his practiced eye there remained scarce a vestige of evidence that the ancient game
trail had been tampered with in any way.
But it was then that the unexpected happened, the thing which projected their struggle for supremacy far into the future, past many a weary mile of
trail and toil.
We're sagging south on the Long
Trail--the
trail that is always new.
So rapidly did he go down the
trail and across the field, that Saxon had no time for questions.