Canter.
Galloping.
Lame Horse Walking: Which leg is he lame in?
N.B.—The long feet are the hind feet.
These are the tracks of two birds on the ground. One lives generally on the ground, the other in bushes and trees.
Which track belongs to which bird?
Wheel tracks should also be studied till you can tell the difference between the track of a gun, a carriage, a country car, motor-car or a bicycle, and the direction they were going in.
In the story of Kim, by Rudyard Kipling, there is an account of two boys being taught “observation,” in order to become detectives by means of a game in which a trayful of small objects was shown to them for a minute and was then covered over, and they had to describe all the things on it from memory.