CHAPTER VI 
bobby’s fight with the stranger lynx 
Then, again, Spring swept over old 
Round-Top, melting the long icicles that 
hung from the rocks and calling out all 
the buds and blossoms. Bobby was a 
beautiful and almost full-grown lynx. 
He could send such a shrill, piercing cry 
through the forest that it even made 
shivers run over old Grandfather Black 
Bear! No lynx that had ever lived on 
Round-Top could scream as wildly as that 
and Grandfather Black Bear stood up 
and measured himself on a giant pine, to 
be sure that he was as tall as ever and that 
his claws were still sharp enough to rip 
chunks out of the bark. Then He went 
on hunting sweet, tender roots and grubs. 
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