"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."
"That's one thing; anything else?"