18 POISON. 



" As a proof of the great strength and agility possessed 

 by the lynx," says Captain Sv. Littorin, " I will mention that 

 in the winter of 1808, one of these beasts fell into a pit-fall 

 near to the town of Gefle ; and although the pit was ten feet 

 deep, and the planks lining its sides smooth, and that he 

 had a steel- trap hanging to his leg, he nevertheless escaped. 

 The trap he afterwards left behind him near to the spot. 

 On the same morning that this happened, the beast was 

 pursued by three experienced sportsmen with dogs ; but 

 although by the tracks he appeared to be much wounded, 

 they could not come up with him." 



Poison does not succeed much better with the lynx than 

 the pit-fall ; for so long as he can find game for himself, he 

 will seldom go near the Luder-plats. Nothing but famine, 

 indeed, tempts him to visit it, and much less carrion that 

 has been impregnated with arsenic, or other deadly ingre- 

 dients. 



