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Show LYNX GNAWS OFF LEG OF HER CUB. MOTHER ADOPT8 HEROIC MEASURES MEAS-URES TO AVE TRAPPED OFFSPRING. FOOT IS CAUGHT IN A TRAP Hunter 8eea the Operation and Out of Compassion He Spares Lives of the Little Beasts. Chambord Junction, Quo. Henry Tato, a trapper, got track of a silver gray fox a fow weeks ngo nnd used tils utmost skill to catch Uio valuablo animal. Ho set several traps, aud was miro that tho fox sprung ono ot them. Thinking thnt the Bteol Jaws woro not heavy enough to hojd, so clover a prisoner, ho finally set a wolf trap near an old log nnd then baited It with u llvo chicken. For three dnys lip fed tho chlckon without oven getting Bight of tho fox but on tho fourth ho heard houikIb as ho nenred tho spots. Tho sounds woro evidently mado by two nnlmals, but not foxes, nnd he approached cau-Uousty. cau-Uousty. Peering through tho bushes ho saw an old bay lynx and nn eight-month-old cub directly over tho trap. Tho young ona wns crying out with pain, while tho old ono now nnd then snarled and grunted. Tato thought thnt ho had both animals ani-mals In tho trap, but (lo soon saw ho was mistaken, for tho old lynx Jumped awny a fow feet, sniffed for dangor signs nnd then returned to her offspring, off-spring, which hnd been sccuroly lipped by a foreleg. Sho seemed to bo exceedingly busy, nnd tho trappor, llwnys on tho lookout for somo now pbaso of nnlmal .life, determined to fathom tho mystery beforo ho shot tho animals. Working n round to n better point of vantage, ho observed thnt tho mother lynx was liberating tho cub by cutting off Its log with her shnrp teeth. As sho gnawed the cub squealed, but tho parent paid little attention to his out-crlos. out-crlos. Evidently he hadn't tho jiorvo to do the Job himself, bo she hnd taken matters Into her own hands. Sho worked carefully, hut with determination, deter-mination, nnd at the end of a few minutes tho lynx wns frco. A trapper is not tupuosed to bo par ttcularly tender-henrted. but Tat never rained his rifle -when tho old lynx slowly moved oft with her limping limp-ing cub. Ho let them go nnd then np-' pronched tho trap. Hero It was ovl- j dent that tho old lynx had exhausted every mennB known to her before Bho decided to cut off the foot of her offspring. off-spring. Sho hnd torn at tho chain, bitten tho tree to which It was at-tnehed at-tnehed and lacerated her own Jaws gnawing tho sharp teeth of tho trap. "I never knew a lynx to rescue nor young In that way," said Tato, after tolling of tho Incident, "but I onco know a wholo fnmlly of barn owls to The Mother Lynx Was Gnawing at Her Offsprlnn's Leo. sit about an Imprisoned ono until It died. Tho owl had been caught In a mink trap, nnd from tho number ol hones tying nbout I nm suro that Its comrades brought It food until death, cntno from exposure. How long it was a prisoner I don't know, but I am suro It was moro than two wooks. ns I passed near tho spot now nnd then, nnd remember seeing tho owls circling about. It waa a month lator that I Btumbtcd ovor tho trap which had been set by another huntor who forgot IL" |