28 BOBBY LYNX OP ROUND-TOP 
dropped from the trees as the birds and 
squirrels darted about and a little dry leaf, 
on one of the small birch trees, flapped and 
snapped until it was very hard work for 
Bobby to keep from crying out loud 
again. 
The world wasn’t at all the place it had 
looked to be from the snug Hollow Tree 
House and Bobby and Tommy were very 
glad when their mother told them that 
lesson-time was over and took them home 
again. Even the big cave, that had always 
looked as if it were such an attractive 
place, did not interest them at all and they 
were very glad to snuggle down in the 
warm Tree House and go to sleep just as 
their mother told them to do. 
Mother Lynx purred them to sleep with 
a song that they were learning very well 
indeed. Every night they had to sing it 
with her, but to-night they were so very 
tired,—she just sang it all by herself: 
