Of snow upon the ground -- of all South Devonshire waking up one morning to find such tracks in the snow as had never before been heard of -- "clawed footmarks" or "an unclassifiable form" -- alternating at huge but regular intervals with what seemed to be the impression of the point of a stick -- but the scattering of the prints -- amazing expanse of territory covered -- obstacles, such as hedges, walls, houses, seemingly surmounted

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