22 BOBBY LY^TX OF EOUND-TOP 
until few animals dared to venture out 
and Mother Lynx began to think that she 
was left all alone in the forest. She had 
been very happy when, at last, old Winter 
began to take his snow-drifts and icicles 
away with him and the warm sun came 
again, for, now, she had two kittens in her 
den to get food for. So, after she had 
eased some of her own hunger-ache that 
morning with Jimmy Weasel, she carried 
the fat partridge into her house for 
Bobby-cat Lynx and his brother Tommy- 
cat. 
Now,—Bobby’s and Tommy’s house 
was a truly wonderful place, so wisely 
chosen and so carefully hidden by Mrs. 
Lynx, that you would have walked right 
by it and never have seen it! For Bobby’s 
and Tommy’s house was in a big hollow 
tree right in front of a huge pile of rocks 
that looked as if they had fallen heels over 
head down Round-Top Hill and had 
