I soon found that in this kind of knowledge he was now my master; and almost on the instant I had cause to be astonished at his acuteness.
I have said that the sight of the cattle-tracks created no surprise in either of us. At first it did not; but we had not ridden twenty paces further, when I saw my companion suddenly rein up, at the same instant giving utterance to one of those ejaculations peculiar to the negro thorax, and closely resembling the “wugh” of a startled hog.
I looked in his face. I saw by its expression that he had some revelation to make.
“What is it, Jake?”
“Golly! Massr George, d’you see daat?”
“What?”
“Daat down dar.”
“I see a ruck of cow-tracks—nothing more.”
“Doant you see dat big ’un?”
“Yes—there is one larger than the rest.”