land-looker

For two hours the land-looker lay in his bunk and listened to a wailing that made his heart fairly sink within him.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890

One day, just as he was finishing a very enjoyable meal of venison tenderloin, he heard the tramp of snow-shoes on the crust, and in a moment more that same land-looker came pacing down a section line and halted squarely in front of him.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890

The land-looker threw the brand with all his might; an ugly snarl came from the shadow, and he saw a big gray animal go tearing away across the hard, smooth crust in a curious kind of gallop, taking three or four yards at a bound, coming down on all four feet at once, and spring forward again as if she was made of rubber.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890

There were days when he was even hungrier than his mother had been the night she serenaded the land-looker, and it was on one of these occasions that he found a porcupine in a tree and tried to make a meal of him.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890

For instance, there was the time when the whole family lay sprawled out on a limb of a tree, fifteen or twenty feet up from the ground, and watched the land-looker go by with his half-axe over his shoulder, his compass in his hand, and a note-book sticking out of his pocket.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890

Once, on a clear, keen, cold winter night when all the great white world seemed frozen to death, she serenaded a land-looker who had made his bed in a deserted lumber-camp and was trying to sleep.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890