26 BOBBY LYNX OF KOUND-TOP 
blinked and blinked as he tried to look way 
up to the top of the Hollow Tree. Never, 
—never could he climb to the top as 
Mother Lynx had told him he would some 
day. 
As a red squirrel ran chattering angrily 
along a big branch and leaped lightly 
across a wide space to a hickory tree,— 
Bobby grew quite dizzy. Never could he 
do anything like that! In fact,—he just 
was not going to try! Bobby was scared, 
as sacred as any kitten you ever saw! He 
forgot how big and strong he had felt in 
the Hollow Tree House when he had 
rolled Tommy over,—forgot his sharp 
claws of which he had been so proud and 
he just snuggled up beside his mother’s 
warm, shaggy coat and cried! 
“ Meow! Meow! ” he wailed, just like a 
frightened tabby-cat. And then, Tommy 
became scared, and he cried, too, and oh! 
how cross Mother Lynx was! And right 
