a ridge above a small barren I saw a herd 

 of caribou acting strangely and went down 

 to investigate. As I reached the fringe of 

 thick bushes that lined the open I saw the 

 caribou cluster excitedly about the base of 

 a big rock across the barren, not more than 

 two hundred yards away. Something was 

 there, evidently, which excited their curi- 

 osity, and caribou are the most inquisitive 

 creatures, at times, in all the woods, but 

 I had to study the rock sharply through my 

 field-glasses before I made out the round 

 fierce head of a big lynx pressed flat against 

 the gray stone. One side of the rock was 

 almost perpendicular, rising sheer some fif- 

 teen or twenty feet above the plain; the 

 other side slanted off less abruptly toward 

 the woods ; and the big lynx, which had 

 probably scrambled up from the woods to spy 

 on the caribou, was now hanging half over 

 the edge of rock, swaying his savage head 

 from side to side and stretching one wide 

 paw after another at the animals beneath. 



The caribou were getting more excited 

 and curious every moment. Caribou are like 



