74 BOBBY LYNX OF ROUND-TOP 
angrily as the pain in his stomach grew 
keener and keener and then,—he stiff¬ 
ened,—scarcely breathing as he caught 
sight of a dark object slinking along the 
path. Not a whisker moved as he 
crouched ready for a spring. Then anger 
flamed through him and over him, for the 
animal underneath him was another lynx 
hunting! Bobby was furious! Didn’t he 
know that this was Bobby’s hunting 
ground? How dared he come here and 
try to get the breakfast that Bobby hoped 
to have for himself! Bobby never stopped 
to see that this was an older and more 
powerful lynx than he was! 
Mad with rage, he just gave a mighty 
spring that carried him down like a shot 
right onto the back of the other lynx. 
As he landed, he tore viciously with all 
of his terrible claws and, for just one 
moment, the other lvnx seemed crushed to 
the earth as Bobby ripped and clawed,—* 
