For answer Mr. Parker proudly stepped to a row of wooden frames, carefully covered with matting. Stripping this away, with the air of a bishop unveiling a memorial, he disclosed a V-shaped line of footprints.
"These," said Parker, "belong to nobody—to nobody I've ever seen or heard of, I mean."
"Hurray!" said Peter.
"Then downwards from the steep hill's edge
They tracked the footmarks small
(only they're largish)."
"No such luck," said Parker. "It's more a case of:
They followed from the earthy bank
Those footsteps one by one,
Into the middle of the plank;