midday
Pierrot had more than once noted the amazing fact that Baree could sense the presence of poison even when it was most skillfully injected into the frozen carcass of a deer . Foxes and wolves ate of flesh from which his supersensitive power of detecting the presence of deadly danger turned him away . So he passed Bush McTaggart 's poisoned tidbits , sniffing them on the way , and leaving the story of his suspicion in the manner of his footprints in the snow . Where McTaggart had halted at midday to cook his dinner Baree made these same cautious circles with his feet . The second day , being less hungry and more keenly alive to the hated smell of his enemy , Baree ate less but was more destructive . McTaggart was not as skillful as Pierre Eustach in keeping the scent of his hands from the traps and `` houses , '' and every now and then the smell of him was strong in Baree 's nose . This wrought in Baree a swift and definite antagonism , a steadily increasing hatred where a few days before hatred was almost forgotten .