In the last fifty years this creek may have been cleaned out a dozen or two times, and then let alone for a spell to grow up again.

This year it's being gone over again, and from certain signs I noticed, the trapper is reaping quite a little harvest.

He was an Indian, too," said the other.
"I suppose you can tell from signs whether a white man or an Indian is working along a stream; no doubt they have different ways of doing things.

I thought the only way to know was to look at the moccasin tracks, as an Indian toes in, while a white man walks with his toes out," pursued Cuthbert.
Owen laughed as though pleased.
"That's an old and exploded theory.

Why should a white man brought up in the wilds toe outward, as though he wore shoes?
With moccasins on his feet, and used to them from a baby, he walks just like a red.