All the same he made a careful sketch of the marks, showing the distance between them and the size of the clay patch.

He'd skidded off a wet clay patch an' smashed his radiator all to smithereens.

The other, some distance in front and to the left and apparently the next step forward, was on the edge of the clay patch and showed the heel only, the sole having borne on the hard.

For all his tiredness, Creslin keeps his tracks well within the hard clay patches upon the road rather than in the snow, determined not to leave a betraying trace for the guards should they have .