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dog would rush in now and be torn to 

 pieces; but not so the wolves. Dancing 

 lightly about the big lynx they would watch 

 ^j^zl^Sizr^ their chance to leap and snap, sometimes 

 k!^j avoiding the blow of the swift paw with 

 its terrible claws, and sometimes catching 

 it on their heavy manes; but always a long 

 red mark showed on the lynx's silver fur as 

 the wolves' teeth clicked with the voice of 

 a steel trap and they leaped aside without 

 serious injury. As the big cat grew blind 

 in his fury they would seize their chance like 

 "Wfok Ly a ^ asn an d l ea P together; one pair of long 

 \«K jaws would close hard on the spine behind 

 the tufted ears; another pair would grip a 

 hind leg, while the wolves sprang apart and 

 braced to hold. Then the fight was all over ; 

 and the moose birds, in pairs, came flitting 

 in silently to see if there were not a few 

 unconsidered trifles of the feast for them to 

 dispose of. 



Occasionally, at nightfall, the wolves' hunt- 

 ing cry would ring out of the woods as one 

 of the cubs discovered three or four of the 

 lynxes growling horribly over some game they 



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