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Amil came back he found the Fox and got a large sum 

 for the skin; one shoulder was torn. He did not see 

 the Lynx but saw the tracks. 



The same old-timer is authority for a case in which 

 the tables were turned. 



A Desert Indian on the headwaters of the Gatineau 

 went out in the early spring looking for Beaver. At a 

 well-known pond he saw a Lynx crouching on a log, 

 watching the Beaver hole in the ice. The Indian 

 waited. At length a Beaver came up cautiously and 

 crawled out to a near bunch of willows; the Lynx 

 sprang, but the Beaver was well under way and dived 

 into the hole with the Lynx hanging to him. After 

 a time the Indian took a crotched pole and fished 

 about under the ice; at last he found something soft 

 and got it out; it was the Lynx drowned. 



Belalise ascribes another notable achievement to 

 this animal. 



One winter when hunting Caribou near Fond du 

 Lac with an Indian named Tenahoo (human tooth), 

 they saw a Lynx sneaking along after some Caribou; 

 they saw it coming but had not sense enough to run 

 away. It sprang on the neck of a young buck; the 

 buck bounded away with the Lynx riding, but soon fell 

 dead. The hunters came up; the Lynx ran off. There 

 was little blood and no large wound on the buck; 

 probably its neck was broken. The Indian said the 

 Lynx always kills with its paw, and commonly kills 

 Deer. David MacPherson corroborates this and main- 

 tains that on occasion it will even kill Moose. 



In southern settlements, where the Lynx is little 



