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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: craggy bank; since gusts of wind will drift the snow beyond such
spots, whereby a store of couching-places[8] is reserved[9]; and that
is what puss seeks.
[6] "Discovered."
[7] "Thicket or overhanging crag."
[8] {eunasima}, "places well adapted for a form."
[9] Al. "many places suited for her form are left aside by puss, but
this she seeks."
If the tracks conduct the huntsman to this kind of covert he had
better not approach too near, for fear the creature should move off.
Let him make a circuit round; the chances are that she is there; and
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