RABBITS AND LYNXES 



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known, it is painted as a fearsome beast of limitless 

 ferocity, strength, and activity. In the north, where it 

 abounds and furnishes staple furs and meat, it is held 

 in no such awe. It is never known to attack man. It 

 often follows his trail out of curiosity, and often the 

 trapper who is so followed gets the Lynx by waiting 



Pole for rabbit snare and various ways of 

 setting the noose 



in ambush; then it is easily killed with a charge of 

 duck-shot. When caught in a snare a very small club 

 is used to "add it to the list." It seems tremendously 

 active among logs and brush piles, but on the level 

 ground its speed is poor, and a good runner can over- 

 take one in a few hundred yards. 



David MacPherson says that last summer he ran 

 down a Lynx on a prairie of Willow River (Mackenzie), 

 near Providence. It had some 90 yards start ; he ran 

 it down in about a mile, then it turned to fight and he 

 shot it. 



Other instances have been recorded, and finally, as 

 noted later, I was eye-witness of one of those exploits. 

 Since the creature can be run down on hard ground, it 



