Show A WITH A LYNX fixa berry biad a Desp crato struggle with a savage bobcat the ugliest appearing animal that ever walked a log tailed a or a trap is tho lynx which is just 03 ugly as it looks ten months in the year and somewhat uglier during the other two not only will the lynx fight anything that walks tho woods but is will also tackle a visitor from the clearings be ho man or dog or half grown calf if the occasion offers jim berry was hunting up in maine about 40 miles north of greenville when ho and hia friend suddenly came apon the carcass of a caribou which a boar was eating the asar made itself scarce much to jims regret as ha wanted to kill the bear without saying anything to his friend ho left camp the next day and started for tho carcass intending to watch it in tho hope that the bear would return ho waited and watched until about 8 in the afternoon when ho began to think of returning to camp A soft footfall back in tho woods tho crafty step of some wild animal just then sounded in hia ears pretty soon the boar was chewing tho caribou meat r r J see i plainly he leveled his u guu and pulled tho trigger when the wab bling was pointed in what he thought was tho right direction the boast went down and jim started for it then he stopped with his mouth open tho beast had leaped to hia feet and jumped sideways with its back up jim knew the yell and ho also lecog nihed the humped back it WAS a wounded lynx spoiling for a fight not having timo to level his gun to shoot tho man clubbed it and tho blow stunned the cat a little but tho beast got iu a rake on the mans leg and toro his trousers and hide too another frantic sweep of the gun barrel laid the beast flat and then a revolver bullet killed the animal tho buckshot had torn alio top of the lynas head to make it angry shooting and fishing |