The 'arth is moist, hereaway, and the grass has been taller than usual.
This miserable beast has been caught in his bed.

You see the bones; the crackling and scorched hide, and the grinning teeth.

A thousand winters could not wither an animal so thoroughly, as the element has done it in a minute." "And this might have been our fate," said Middleton, "had the flames come upon us, in our sleep!" "Nay, I do not say that, I do not say that.

Not but that man will burn as well as tinder; but, that being more reasoning than a horse, he would better know how to avoid the danger." "Perhaps this then has been but the carcass of an animal, or he too would have fled ?" "See you these marks in the damp soil?
Here have been his hoofs,--and there is a moccasin print, as I'm a sinner! The owner of the beast has tried hard to move him from the place, but it is in the instinct of the creatur' to be faint-hearted and obstinate in a fire." "It is a well-known fact.

But if the animal has had a rider, where is he ?" "Ay, therein lies the mystery," returned the trapper, stooping to examine the signs in the ground with a closer eye.