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IN BERKSHIRE FIELDS 



is about thirty-eight inches long (including six 

 inches of stiff tail). His hair is shorter and redder 



The wildcat is the shyest animal of our Eastern forests, 

 and yet the fiercest and most formidable 



than the true Canada lynx, being mixed white and 

 black only on the under side, and his paws are much 

 smaller in proportion to his body, though they are 



