70 BOBBY LYNX OF KOUND-TOP 
He had been asleep all winter and had 
eaten nothing, so that he was very thin; 
also, he was exceedingly hungry and those 
roots surely did taste delicious to Grand¬ 
father Black Bear. So he decided to go 
right on hunting grubs and pay no atten¬ 
tion to Bobby-cat Lynx. 
While Grandfather Black Bear was 
measuring himself upon the top of old 
Round-Top, that was exactly what Bobby 
was doing down by the Hollow Tree 
House. Low down on its rough, old 
bark, were the marks that he and Tommy 
had made when they had first scratched 
their sharp, little claws on the tree. That 
was so long ago that Bobby had forgotten 
all about it and as he stood up against the 
tall pine, it did not seem possible that he 
had ever made those marks so near the 
foot of the tree. For,—Bobby’s sturdy 
back legs (higher than his front ones) 
measured almost nineteen inches high and 
