BOBBY LYNX OF BOUND-TOP 25 
ears looked very funny with their tiny 
tufts of stiff hairs at the top. 
Bobby’s and Tommy’s eyes had been 
opened now for quite a while, they were 
getting very much steadier on their legs 
and, as Mother Lynx watched them leap 
and play in the Hollow Tree House and 
saw how they could roll each other over 
and over and how strongly they could 
push against her,—she decided that it was 
about time to give them their first out¬ 
door lesson. So ,—very cautiously, she led 
them out of the house to the warm hill¬ 
side where the tangled birch thicket safely 
screened them in on all sides. Bobby and 
Tommy slunk along very close to their 
mother. Oh, how many curious sounds 
there were,—and what peculiar smells and 
how cold the earth felt beneath their soft 
paws,—not like the floor in the Hollow 
Tree House at all and,—oh,—how big,— 
how very big the mountain was! Bobby; 
