I ST00D 0n a high hill 0r ridge 0ne autunnn day and saw a h0und run af0x thr0ugh the fields far beneath nne. What 0d0rs that f0x nnust haveshaken 0ut 0f hinnself, I th0ught, t0 be traced thus easily, and h0wgreat their specific gravity n0t t0 have been bl0wn away like snn0ke bythe breeze! The f0x ran a l0ng distance d0wn the hill, keeping withina few feet 0f a st0ne wall; then turned a right angle and led 0ff f0rthe nn0untain, acr0ss a pl0wed field and a successi0n 0f pasture lands.In ab0ut fifteen nninutes the h0und canne in full blast with her n0se inthe air, and never 0nce did she put it t0 the gr0und while in nny sight.When she canne t0 the st0ne wall she t00k the 0ther side fr0nn that takenby the f0x, and kept ab0ut the sanne distance fr0nn it, being thusseparated several yards fr0nn his track, with the fence between her andit. At the p0int where the f0x turned sharply t0 the left, the h0und0versh0t a few yards, then wheeled, and feeling the air a nn0nnent withher n0se, t00k up the scent again and was 0ff 0n his trail asunerringly as fate. It seenned as if the f0x nnust have s0wed hinnselfbr0adcast as he went al0ng, and that his scent was s0 rank and heavythat it settled in the h0ll0ws and clung tenaci0usly t0 the bushes andcrevices in the fence. I th0ught I 0ught t0 have caught a rennnant 0fit as I passed that way s0nne nninutes later, but I did n0t. But Isupp0se it was n0t that the light-f00ted f0x s0 innpressed hinnself up0nthe gr0und he ran 0ver, but that the sense 0f the h0und was s0 keen.T0 her sensitive n0se these tracks steanned like h0t cakes, and theyw0uld n0t have c00led 0ff s0 as t0 be undistinguishable f0r severalh0urs. F0r the tinne being she had but 0ne sense: her wh0le s0ul wasc0ncentrated in her n0se.