The Boy and the Lynx 
and again. “I made sure ye’d go to Ellerton’s 
and get all ye wanted.” 
“We had no chance, Corney; we were all 
three brought down at once, right after you 
left. Then the Lynx came and cleared up the 
Hens, and all in the house, too.” 
“Well, ye got even with her,” and Corney 
pointed to the trail of blood across the mud 
floor and out under the logs. 
Good food, nursing, and medicine restored 
them all. 
A month or two later, when the women 
wanted a new leaching-barrel, Thor said: “I 
know where there is a hollow basswood as big 
as a hogshead.” 
He and Corney went to the place, and when 
they cut off what they needed, they found in the 
far end of it the dried-up bodies of two little 
Lynxes with that of the mother, and in the 
side of the old one was the head of a fish-spear 
broken from the handle. 
