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escape from its enemy. Finally, the rabbit had bolted past the 

 snare, and the panting fox, with its tongue hanging out, follow- 

 ing close behind, accidentally had touched its wet tongue 

 against the wire, and the frost of many degrees below zero had 

 instantly frozen it there. Then the fox, struggling to get free, 

 had set off the snare, which closing on its tongue had hauled it 

 into the air, where it had hung with just the tip of its tail and 

 its hind toes resting on the snow. When Mrs. King found it, 

 it was dead. 



That evening, when the fire sank low and we turned in, a 

 pack of timber wolves for fully an hour sang us a most interest- 

 ing lullaby; such a one, indeed, that it made the goose-flesh run 

 up and down our backs — or rather my back — ^just as really 

 fine music always does; and to tell the truth, I enjoyed it more 

 than many a human concert I have heard. 



HUNTING THE LYNX 



It was cool next morning and cloudy and threatening snow. 

 Five rabbits had been caught during the night, and after break- 

 fast we turned to setting lynx snares. The steel trap is set for 

 the lynx much in the same way as it is for the fox; but for 

 the lynx, a snare is preferable. It is set with or without a 

 tossing-pole, at the entrance of a brush-lodge, the base of which 

 is about five feet wide. The bait used is made by rubbing 

 beaver castorum on a bit of rabbit skin placed in a spht stick set 

 vertically in the centre of the lodge. A surer way, however, is 

 to also set a steel trap in front of the lodge door, so that if the 

 lynx does not enter, he may be caught while looking in. The 

 Indians often hunt them with dogs, for, when pursued, the 

 lynx soon takes to a tree and then is easily shot. But the most 

 proficient hunters hke to hunt them by calhng. They imitate 

 its screech and also its whistle, for the lynx whistles some- 

 what hke a jack-rabbit, though the sound is coarser and 



