"Can't give it away," replied Pepper, "or you would all want to do
it."
"I think," broke in the colonel, "it is time we were starting back.
If you like, we will have a game on the way."
"A game?" asked Jack.
"Yes; a chase."
"Hare and hounds?" asked Pepper.
"In a way," replied the colonel. "Gerald, you and Pepper will be
the hares and the rest of us the hounds."
"Do you mean to scatter papers?" asked Rand.
"Hardly," replied the colonel. "Nothing as plain as that. Remember,
we are scouts, and we are going to try and follow the trail they
leave. Now, then, hares, off with you. Go any way you choose, and
in ten minutes we will take up the trail and see if we can follow
it."
With a whoop Gerald and Pepper were off, racing down the road.
"Now, boys," went on the colonel, when the hares had gone, "study
their foot-prints so that you will know them again."
"They all look alike to me," replied Rand.
"Study them a little," suggested the colonel; "isn't there any
difference between them?"
"I think," began Jack hesitatingly, "that one is broader than the
other.
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