BOBBY LYNX OF BOUND-TOP 71 
his thick, grey-coated body,—just a 
bunch of muscles,—was over three feet 
long. As he stood up against the tree and 
stretched out his silvery claws, they were 
almost two inches long! Like a vise, they 
closed on the tough bark of the tree, 
crunching right through it and making 
long, jagged tears almost five feet from 
the ground! 
Bobby-cat was nearly grown up and he 
wore heavy, greyish whiskers on the sides 
of his jaws, which really gave him a very 
funny appearance, as if his heavy face, 
with its wicked - looking teeth, were 
framed in a grey frame with two sharply- 
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tufted ears at the top of the frame. None 
of the animals on Round-Top thought 
him at all funny , however. They thought 
he was the fiercest-looking young warrior 
they had ever seen and they fled as fast 
as they could go whenever the wind told 
them that he was anywhere near them! 
