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howl of the wolf. He will then climb the largest 

 tree he can find, or crawl into a rocky crevice, 

 from which last it is very difficult to extract him 

 after being shot. 



Going over my line of traps one day I crossed 

 the fresh tracks of a large lynx. I had one of my 

 brothers with me on his first year at trapping 

 and had told him of how the lynx could be run 

 down and shot. The track we were following was 

 fresh, and my brother was very anxious that we 

 should try conclusions with the animal. So we 

 laid down our packs, and taking only the gun and 

 one axe we started after our game. We went 

 about a mile or so before we ' 'raised 5 ' him. We 

 knew this by the way he jumped in the soft snow. 

 We then began to howl and bark to frighten him 

 into climbing some tree. He did not take kindly 

 to our proposition, however, the surrounding 

 trees being too small. He had tried a couple and 

 come down again, making for the side of a steep 

 mountain, where he managed to crawl in under 

 some large boulders. After making sure he had 

 not come out elsewhere, I set my brother to watch 

 with the gun in case he might yet do so, and I 

 started to work to try and locate him. I had to 

 remove quite a lot of snow to reach the level of 

 the hole, and after about two hours' work finally 

 saw him. He had turned around, facing me, and 

 his eye-balls were the first objects I saw in the 



