KILLED BY A GOAT. 7 



According to the last-cited author, however, the tables are 

 at times turned on the lynx. After informing us that this 

 beast is in the habit of burrowing in the ground, he goes on 

 to say : " It happened lately that a Goup (the Norwegian 

 for lynx) was found out by a sly he-goat, who perceiving his 

 subterraneous work, watched him narrowly, and as soon as his 

 head came forth, before the body could be got out, butted 

 him, and gave him such home pushes, that he laid him 

 dead on the grave of his own making." 



Not to speak of the ravages he commits in the fold, the 

 lynx, moreover, is the sportsman's greatest enemy, being 

 beyond doubt the most destructive beast that ranges the 

 northern forests. The capercali, the black-cock, &c., are too 

 frequently his victims, and the poor hare, which would seem 

 to be his most choice morsel, he pursues so incessantly and 

 perseveringly, that few within his beat escape him. 



According to Ekstrom, " the lynx, like the house-cat, 

 buries his excrements, and also his urine, in porous earth 

 or sand. From this his custom, it was formerly believed 

 that Amber (the Lyncurium of the ancients) originated in 

 the urine of this beast." 



The lynx's claws, Pontoppidan says, were in his day 

 considered a specific for the cramp, when worn round the 

 neck ; but the worthy Bishop wisely adds, that he cannot 

 affirm such to be the fact. 



The flesh of all the tiger tribe is in England considered 

 the worst of carrion ; but this is a mistake, as regards that 

 of the lynx at least, which greatly resembles veal in appear- 

 ance, and to my personal knowledge for I have often 

 partaken of it is very palatable. Grimalkin in the hand of 

 Soyer would probably prove equally good. 





