Eureka Reporter | 1906-06-22 | Page 5 | Followed Prey Too Far

FOLLOWED PREY TOO FAR in its anxiety to secure dinner lynx bolts into trapper s hut and 1 killed that the instinct of self preserve pre serva alon 1 not confined to the human race Is evident from many instances in the experience of hunters in the north woods of minnesota george U wn a trapper in the river country relates the fact that while seated in his tent one evening at dusk there was a sudden commotion at the entrance and in popped a rabbit be hind the rabbit in hot pursuit came another animal which talal shot down the snow incline into the tent the animal proved to be a lynx for a moment it did not dawn upon the lynx that it had been caught in a snare and then it jumped to the opposite side of the tent and begab to claw the canvas and snarl by this time the trapper had grabber a club and was on his feet the fight that followed was lively and how he mar aged to dodge the lynx and also hit it in the semi darkness Is he says a mystery but it was not long before the lynx was stretched out lifeless the hunter came out of the encounter with a few scratches and in the meantime the rabbit escaped