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is not surprising to learn that men on snow-shoes com- 

 monly pursue it successfully. As long as it trots it is 

 safe, but when it gets alarmed and bounds it sinks 

 and becomes exhausted. It runs in a circle of about 

 a mile, and at last takes to a tree where it is easily 

 killed. At least one-third are taken in this way; it 

 requires half an hour to an hour, there must be soft 

 snow, and the Lynx must be scared so he leaps; then 

 he sinks; if not scared he glides along on his hairy 

 snow-shoes, refuses to tree, and escapes in thick woods, 

 where the men cannot follow quickly. 



