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the far Northwest, where the half-breeds still 

 use it for lynx successfully. But as a study 

 of the way in which trappers seize upon 

 some peculiarity of an animal and use it for 

 his destruction, it has no equal. 



That Pekompf's cunning is of the cat kind, 

 suspicious without being crafty or intelligent 

 like that of the fox or wolf, is curiously 

 shown by a habit which both lynx and wild- 

 cat have in common, namely, that of carrying 

 anything they steal to the top of some lofty 

 evergreen to devour it. When they catch a 

 rabbit or fish fairly themselves, they gener- 

 ally eat it on the spot; but when they steal 

 the same animal from snare or cache, or from 

 some smaller hunter, the cat suspicion returns 

 together with some dim sense of wrong- 

 doing, which all animals feel more or less 

 and they make off with the booty and eat it 

 greedily where they think no one will ever 

 find them. 



Once, when watch- 

 ing for days under a 

 fish-hawk's nest to see 

 the animals that came 



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