SCANDINAVIAN ADVENTURES. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE LYNX SIZE HAUNTS CLIMBING TREES MANNER OF ATTACK 

 SANGUINARY DISPOSITION KILLED BY A GOAT EASILY DOMESTICATED 

 EXTRAORDINARY LEAP ATTACKS THE HUNTER MALTREATS THE DOGS 

 HOT CONFLICT STEEL-TRAPS THE LO-BAS SECOND KIND AGILITY 

 POISON. 



THE Lynx, or the Northern Tiger, as he is sometimes 

 called (Lo } Sw. ; Fells Lynx, Linn.), was pretty common 

 in the country about Ronnum. This is the case almost 

 everywhere in both Sweden and Norway; but he is more 

 plentiful by all accounts in the northern than in the southern 

 portion of Scandinavia. When my former work was written, 

 it was a much mooted question in Sweden whether there 

 was one species or more in the peninsula. Nilsson, adopting 

 the popular notion, went so far, indeed, as to make out 

 three several kinds, which he designated as the wolf-, the 

 fox-, and the cat-lynx. But the learned Professor, as well 



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