34 BOBBY LYNX OF BOUND-TOP 
having a fine time. But,—just as she was 
beginning to feel a bit tired and ready to 
go home, what should she see, right in the 
path behind her, but two glowing eyes that 
looked like coals of fire! Mrs. Lynx was 
also in the woodland path that night! 
For just one instant, Mollie “ froze ” 
and pretended to play dead and then she 
realized that would not save her this time. 
Nothing but her brave little heart, pound¬ 
ing so furiously with fear and her stout 
little legs, could possibly help her in this 
moment of terrible danger and, with one 
mighty bound, she bobbed away down the 
path, just as Mrs. Lynx sprang. The 
cruel paws with their long claws missed 
Mollie by the merest tip of her white tail 
and Mollie bobbed and bounced down the 
path, leaping this way and that to avoid 
the dreadful fate that she felt was behind 
her. As she darted toward the little Tree 
House that had never seemed to her quite 
