That is very easy; even Dagaeoga here, the great talker, knows it.

The footsteps are far apart, so we are sure that they are those of a tall man; the imprints are deep, proving them to have been made by a heavy man, and at the outer edge of the heel the impression is deeper than on the inner edge.

I noticed, when we last saw Black Rifle, which was not long ago, that he wore moccasins of moose hide, that he had turned them outward a little, through wear, and that a small strip of the hardest moose hide had been sewed on the right edge of each heel in order to keep them level.

Those strips have made their marks here." "Somebody else might have put strips of hide on his moccasin heels!" "It is so, but Black Rifle is tall and large and heavy, and we know that the man who made this trail is tall, large and heavy.

The chances are a hundred to one against the fact that any other man tall, large and heavy with moose hide strips to even the wear of his moccasin heels has passed here, especially as this is within the range of Black Rifle.