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on the New Brunswick Bush. 
Henry Braithwaite’s Tales 
of the 
Forest 
The Canada Lynx 
HE Canada Lynx is another of 
our valuable fur-bearing  ani- 
mals, but like all the others it is 
fast disappearing. I remember when 
I first began hunting they were so nu- 
merous that the boss at one camp 
caught thirty in one trap through the 
winter. Then they were only worth a 
dollar or a dollar and a half. 
I remember one trip round one of 
my lines of getting fifteen, going and 
coming. It was a long line and took 
me ten days to go and come, but of 
course I spent considerable time skin- 
ning. They were worth at that time 
two dollars and a half apiece, on an 
average, and since then I have known 
them to be thirty or forty dollars. 
They are very easily trapped, for 
their curiosity gets them into many 
scrapes. If you put a piece of red rag 
in back of the trap they have got to 
investigate it and get in the trap. On 
lakes I often entice them toward the 
trap by taking a burned fire brand or 
something black and stick it up in the 
lake. They will come to see what it 
is and if you have the trap near 
on the shore they will find it. 
They are very timid animals but 
desperate fighters when they have to 
be. They have been known to attack 
men. I once knew an old man who 
showed me scars on his back and arms 
from what he called an “Injun de.'1.” 
It sprang off a tree onto him one night 
and mauled him badly. No doubt it 
was a lynx. They kill caribou and deer 
quite easily. 
They are great climbers. I once had 
one get into a steel trap that was 
fastened to a small tree. When I came 
to the place where the trap had been, 
it was gone. Searching for hours 
through the woods, I found no trace 
of it and I came back to where I had 
set the trap to boil my kettle and have 
dinner. While lying back waiting for 
the kettle to boil, I happened to look 
up into a big tree overhead and there 
was the lynx, trap, bush and all. It 
had got wound fast round the limb of 
the tree and the lynx was dead. 
Lynx are invariably infested with 
fleas. I knew of one hunter foolish 
enough to skin a lynx and put the skin 
under his head for a pillow. He didn’t 
sleep much that night and had to 
change his clothes in the morning when 
he found out what the matter was. 
(Ge canes to most animals, when 
the lynx gets into a trap and finds 
he is fast, he quietly sits down and 
eats all his bait and is prepared to 
fight when the trapper comes along. I 
remember once of going along the line 
with my partner. While I was, fixing 
a trap he went ahead to the next trap. 
For some time we had been getting 
lynxes of very poor quality and when 
I saw him standing in front of the trap 
I wondered what the trouble was. 
When I came up he said, “Now, there 
is a lynx worth skinning.” I looked 
and saw he was a beauty; very large 
with fur very bright and silvery. My © 
partner started up to kill the lynx, but 
It will identify you. 

