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2^2 Woodcraft Manual tor Girls both ways; the other when it appears on but one side of each tree, making a blind trail, which can be run one way only, the blind trail is often used by trappers and pro^)ectors, ymo do not wish any one to follow their back track. But there are treeless regions where the trail must be marked; regions of sage brush and sand, regions of rock, stretches of stone, and level wastes of grass or sedge. Here other methods must be employed. A well-known Indian device, in the brush, is to break 8 twig and leave it hanging. {Second line.) Among stones and rocks the recognized sign is one stone set on top of another (top Hue) anr' in places where there is noth- ing but grass the custom is to twist a tussock into a knot {third line). These signs also are used in the whole country from Maine to California. In running a trail one naturally looks straight ahead fw the next sign; if the trail turned abruptly without notice one might easily l)c set wrong, but custom has provided against this. The tree blaze for turn "to the right" is shown in No, 2, fourth row; "to the left" in No. ^. The greater length of the turning blaze seems to be due to a desire for emphasis as the same mark set square on, is understood to mean "Look out, there is something of special importance here." Combined with a long side chip it means "very import- ant; here turn aside." This is often used to mean "camp is close by," and a third sign that is variously combined but always with the general meaning of "warning" or "something of great imiKirtance" is a threefold blaze. (No. 4 on fourth line.) The combination (No. i on l>ottom row) would read "Look out now for something of great importance to the right." Hiis blaze I have often seen used by trappers to mark the wl^reabouts of their trap or cache. Surveyors often use a similar mark — that is, three simple s|H)ts and a strijx; to mean, "There is a stake close at hand," while a similar blaze on another tree nearby means that the stake is on a line between. Stona Signs These signs done into stone-talk woukl be as in the top line of the cut. These arc much used in the Rockies where the trail goes over 8t(Hiy places or along stretches of slide-rock.