"A track-walker!" cried Betty.

X WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY At ten forty-eight on the Saturday morning Kent was standing with the general manager on the Union Station track platform beside the engine which was to make the flying run to Gaston.

The fellow had a single-track mind.

The Camp Fire Boys' tracking squad; or, Where woodcraft paid big dividends.

Curved pipes are let down into the track-tank as the train speeds on, and scoop up the water so fast that the great reservoirs are very quickly filled.

From the stake-driving of the engineers to the spike-driving of the track-layers was a full decade.

The plan contemplated the construction of a double track railroad 420 miles long, perfect in all its parts, and equipped to its utmost necessity.

This consumes twelve hours, and is performed by a track-boat, attended by numerous inconveniences.

Hence it may be worth while to mention that Thorndyke's method of producing the track chart, described in Chapters II and III, has been actually used in practice.

Their antiquity probably exceeds that of the Roman ways; the footsteps of the aboriginal Britons first wore away the grass, and the natural flow of intercourse between village and village has kept the track bare ever since.

"The way I got acquainted with Pete was when he put his hard coin agin a French tin-horn's race-track game.

He got the pathfinder's badge for one of the best tracking stunts that was ever done up at Temple Camp and he's done enough tracking stunts to win it two or three times over.

When he was in the Hill School he won the pole vault, but later, in his real collegiate days, he never could come within two inches of 'varsity form, and therefore failed to make the track-team.

The mountain torrent is a boss of palest emerald ice against the dazzle of the snow; the pine-stumps are capped and hooded with gigantic mushrooms of snow; the rocks are overlaid five feet deep; the rocks, the fallen trees, and the lichens together, and the dumb white lips curl up to the track cut in the side of the mountain, and grin there fanged with gigantic icicles.

Being a late comer in the field, the Trans-Western had scanty track rights in the upper yard; its local headquarters were in the shops suburb, where the two division main lines proper began and ended, diverging, the one to the eastward and the other to the west.

One morning I can remember well, how we watched from the Hartland Cliffs a great barque, which came drifting and rolling in before the western gale, while we followed her up the coast, parsons and sportsmen, farmers and Preventive men, with the Manby's mortar lumbering behind us in a cart, through stone gaps and track-ways, from headland to headland.

The moccasin track invasion.

"I followed 'em ter Californy, an' worked out, an' sold books an' peddled fruit, but I've kep' track o' little Miriam.

Then I farmed, done track work on the railroad, and farmed some more.

"At three dollars a day, that would hire nearly a thousand track labourers for thirty days.

how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.

I went over to the place where he had climbed out and found an enormous bear track pointing in the direction the hounds had come.

Horse-track three-quarters of the way; an easy and pleasant climb.

A large audience had gathered and was seated in the gallery where the running-track ran.

There is not a sign of our tracks between these cairns, but the last, marking our night camp of the 6th, No. 59, is in the belt of hard sastrugi, and I was comforted to see signs of the track reappearing as we camped.