90 BOBBY LYNX OF BOUND-TOP 
Forest-laws and he knew about snow and 
ice and just how slippery it was for a big 
cat to walk on. But he had such power¬ 
ful, tearing claws that he had only to 
spread them out and drive them in and 
even the hardest ice had to splinter be¬ 
neath them. And so, as he leaped, he 
had no fear of anything happening to 
him! But there were a few things that 
even he did not know. And he thought 
of what was going to happen to Mol- 
lie and what a toothsome breakfast he 
would have before he crept home to sleep 
in the Hollow Tree House. 
Down he dropped, like a big, grey 
stone! Somehow,—Mollie saw him al¬ 
most as he was upon her! With a shrill, 
little squeak, she half-jumped, half-slid 
backward at the exact instant the big 
claws struck the very spot where she had 
been. Down Mollie slid, straight down 
the glittering icicles, falling at last, half- 
