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Keith stood angrily giving instructions which nobody attended to. Millicent, standing near her, looked hot and unhappy, but for all that her eyes twinkled when a waiter, colliding with a chair, went down with a crash and the bobcat sped away from him in a series of awkward jumps. At last, Blake managed to seize it with his mittened hands.
"By George, I bet that animal weighs every ounce of thirty pounds," he exclaimed. "Then it's the heftiest bobcat I've ever heard about," said Phil. "Well, let's get back to bed again," yawned Dick. "I was sleeping like a log when I thought the whole shack had been pulled in about my ears. Good thing I woke up though.
His hair was sandy, his face tawny brown, his shirt a gray blue, and every one knew his dusty roan horse; by nature, by temperament and by personal selection he was suited to blend into a landscape of sage-dotted plains or sand. Tireless as a lobo on the trail, swift as a bobcat in fight, hunted men had been known to ride in and give themselves up when they heard that Pete Glass was after them.
Then I take it the thing must have been a bobcat," said Jerry. "Something along the cat family, anyway," replied Frank. "Look here! You don't mean to say it was a panther?" demanded the other. "I'm not saying anything; but in the morning we'll go and take a look at the ground behind that second log over there.
One look at their feet and ears was all you'd want to see that their pa was a bobcat. They all become famous fighting characters, and was marked just like this descendant of theirs that Cousin Egbert has.
The fox was never still, weaving in and out, looping and turning round the pin that held the trap; lashed into constant movement by his native nervousness but making no strenuous efforts to break loose. Later the same night he found a bobcat. The big cat made no move save a slight creasing of his facial muscles preparatory to a snarl if the wolf drew near.
"Yes, I got him when I had just about exhausted every scheme I could think up," answered the trapper; "and let me tell you, boys, that day when I carried him to the cabin I felt as big as the President of the United States." Another night of comfort followed. Trapper Jim said it began to feel real lonely, now that the bold bobcat no longer came prowling around trying to steal things.
Then came the affair with the prowling bobcat; and Max would certainly not soon forget the chilly sensation that held possession of him all the time he could see those twin glowing yellow orbs fastened upon him. And last, though far from least, had been that fear when he found reason to believe a passing rattler was within half a dozen feet of him. Could there be any further danger to be met?
I suspect it's all salt round here. I remember I've read of salt water between the Everglades and the sea. You take the bank downstream and see what you find. I'll go upstream. We'll meet here in an hour." They parted at once. But Payne was back at the camp fire in an hour and Higgins was there ahead of him. "What did you, Hig?" "I found a mangrove swamp that a bobcat couldn't get through.
I think the whatzit's had it. I just got a buzz from the railroad cops at Logansport. It seems a track-walker found a dead bobcat on the Logan River branch, about a mile or so below MMY signal tower. Looks like it tangled with that night freight up-river, and came off second best. It was near chopped to hamburger." "MMY signal tower; that's right below Yoder's Crossing," the sergeant considered.
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