I knowed it by its smallness, and by the print of them odd-shaped nails in your heel.

Well, you see, that just set me wild.

I knowed at once that by some hook or crook you had give the spalpeens the slip, and was wandering round kind of lost like mysilf.

So I started on the tracks, and followed them, till it got dark, as best I could, though they sometimes led me over the rocks and hard earth, in such a way that I could only guess at 'em.

When night came, I was pretty near this spot, but I was puzzled.