“It is queer,” he said, “but there have been people here. Look, there is a hoof-mark, and it was shod.”

Hoof-mark, the mark of an animal's hoof on the ground, &c.—adj.

Now, after a shower, each hoof-mark was a clay goblet of water, and the badgers' thirsty red tongues used to lick out the contents gratefully.