" Laska! here?" he asked, pointing her to a different direction.

She stopped, asking him if she had better not go on doing as she had begun.

But he repeated his command in an angry voice, pointing to a spot covered with water, where there could not be anything.

She obeyed him, pretending she was looking, so as to please him, went round it, and went back to her former position, and was at once aware of the scent again.

Now when he was not hindering her, she knew what to do, and without looking at what was under her feet, and to her vexation stumbling over a high stump into the water, but righting herself with her strong, supple legs, she began making the circle which was to make all clear to her.