[CHAPTER X]
BLAZING A FOREST TRAIL
"Every time you turn around the scenery has shifted," complained Tad Butler, as the four boys stood on a rise of ground gazing this way and that for familiar signs, while waiting for the guide, with whom they had been out hunting and studying woodcraft.
"I thought I knew my way about in the woods, but I find I don't know as much as a yearling," answered Rector. "Where is that guide?"
"Maybe he has gone home," suggested Stacy.
"I guess he has not gone far," said Ned.
"He said he wanted to get a look at an old burn some little way to the northward."
"I'll go look for him," offered Walter.
Tad Butler was already too good a woodsman to permit his friend to do anything of the sort. Tad said they must keep together.
"For the sake of making conversation, which way would you go if you were about to follow Mr. Vaughn?" he asked.