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apiece while a full-grown flat-tail will 
weigh easily' four times that. 
That afternoon we took the Game 
Getter and shot 27 ’rats, wading out in 
the shallow places to pick them up as 
we had no boat and didn’t think of 
building a raft. The next night we got 
a ’rat in one of the beaver traps and 
something had eaten it up. Taking an- 
other ’rat we placed it in a smaller trap 
and reset the big one a little to one side. 
That evening Cy shot a beaver with the 
Game Getter and it sank. The next 
morning we were down to the dams be- 
fore the sun had come up. As we came 
in view of the spot where we had made 
the blind we saw a grayish-looking ani- 
mal, about the size of a coyote, leaping 
and straining at the trap. At first we 
thought it a wolf but as we drew nearer 
we knew that it didn’t belong to the 
dog family. 
“A Canadian Lynx!” I ejaculated and 
Cy nodded his head in the affirmative. 
It was our first glimpse of the big cat, 
and so many tales had we heard in con- 
nection with the ferocity of these crea- 
tures, we were prepared for the thing 
to fly straight out of the trap into our 
faces. Approaching cautiously, Cy got 
within a short distance of the lynx and 
dispatched him with a well-directed shot 
between the eyes. In latter years the 
taking of a lynx has become such a 
commonplace thing with me that I often 
wonder how it was possible for me to 
be so thrilled in this first instance. We 
were somewhat disappointed as to the 
size of the lynx, except that he had con- 
siderably longer legs 'he was otherwise 
scarcely larger than a big Bobcat of the 
western states. 
Going on over to the main dam we 
were delighted to find the beaver that 
Cy had shot, floating on the surface. I 
have shot a large number of beavers 
in my time and but three of them ever 
sank below the surface as this one had 
done. Of these three, everyone even- 
tually floated to the surface. Two of 
the trio were shot through the head 
(where the trapper generally shoots 
them) so I am still puzzled as to the 
real cause for this. 
A LONG in the forepart of November 
our first little flurry of snow fell. 
Between Kimberly Lake and the Bap- 
tiste we had built another cabin about 
three-quarters of a mile off the trail at 
what we called Moose Lake, a body of 
water about half the size of Kimberly. 
On my way down to this middle lake I 
noticed where a fresh moose track 
crossed the trail. For some inexplicable 
reason moose were very scarce around 
there and as we were very anxious to 
secure one, I took out after the wan- 
derer. I was totally ignorant of the 
ways of the moose. Time after time I 
was within a short distance of the big 
fellow; he seemed to take a delight in 
just keeping out of sight, and twice I 
heard him crashing away through the 
brush. 
Late in the afternoon I came across 
a place that was tracked up like a barn- 
yard, evidently there was a half dozen 
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