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turkeys ; when they see some new thing they 

 must die or find out about it. Now they were 

 when (Jpltteek/s spreading and closing their ranks, wavering 

 back and fort i 1) stretching ears and noses 

 at the queer thing on the rock, but drawing 

 nearer and nearer with every change. 



Suddenly the lynx jumped, not at the 

 caribou, for they were still too far away, 

 but high in the air with paws outspread. 

 He came down in a flurry of snow, whirled 

 round and round as if bewitched, then van- 

 ished silently in two great jumps into the 

 shelter of the nearest evergreens. 



The caribou broke wildly at the strange 

 sight, but turned after a startled bound or 

 two to see what it was that had frightened 

 them. There was nothing in sight, and like 

 a flock of foolish sheep they came timidly 

 back, nosing the snow and stretching their 

 ears at the rock again; for 

 there at the top was the 

 big lynx, swinging his 

 round head from side to 



^'- -^^ side as before, 



^ and reaching 



