that sparsely settled part of the county were afraid to go out of 
the house at night. Young Brady tracked two strange animals 
a tew weeks ago to a den in some huge rocks near his home on 
the Cook place and set a trap with the idea of capturing them. 
Three times they sprung the traps without being caught. 
Put Up a Big Fight 
Last Monday the animals were less fortunate and one of 
them, the male, was securely caught with one hind foot and one 
front foot in the trap. W hen Brady went to look at the traps 
in the morning and found that he had captured some animal, he 
attempted to kill it with a club, but the animal put up such a 
terrific fight that the boy thought it would break the trap-chain 
and escape. He then procured a rifle and killed it with several 
shots in the head. It was the male cat, and its companion, be- 
lieved to be a female, is still under the rocks. 
Not a Domestic "Wild" Cat 
The captured animal is not a domestic cat gone back to a 
wild state, but is, without much doubt a distinct species — a gen- 
uine wild cat. It is not a bob cat nor a Canada lynx, nor is it 
a cross between these two animals, as some people have pro- 
nounced it. It corresponds exactly with the description of the 
wild cat contained in Dr. J. G. Wood's "Natural History," and 
it occupied precisely the habitat which Dr. Wood says the wild 
cat frequents, "rocky and woody country, making its home in 
the cleft of some rocks," a place just like that in which this wild 
cat was captured. 
The Car's Measurements 
The animal captured in Xockamixon has strong and power- 
ful claws and teeth, and its head is large in proportion to its body. 
It apparently has not an ounce of surplus flesh, being sinewy 
and wiry, and yet it weighs eight and a half pounds. Its length 
from the tip of his nose to the tip of its tail is 30 inches. Its 
body length is 20 inches and it stands 13 inches high. Its front 
legs are T inches long and its back legs 13 inches. Its. head 
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