72 BOBBY LYNX OF BOUND-TOP 
And that brought about a condition of 
things that was almost the end of poor 
Bobby! Everything was so very much 
afraid of him and all the little animals 
just seemed to have grown so very wise 
that they did not do one foolish thing nor 
come near enough for him to spring on 
them! 
Mollie Rabbit had a new familv of 
babies in the Hollow Spruce Tree House 
and Mrs. Woodchuck had a line new 
family in her snug burrow, while there 
were so many new baby field-mice that 
it was all their poor parents could do to 
get enough for them to eat! But, never¬ 
theless, Bobby could not get one,—not 
one! Jimmy Weasel’s numerous rela¬ 
tives were so busily engaged in robbing 
birds’ nests and squirrels’ homes that they 
were hardly on the ground long enough 
for hungry Bobby to get a smell of them! 
Oh,—how hungry he was, for try as he 
