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Updated: May 13, 2025
But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it; and the time was to come when the she-wolf, for her grey cub's sake, would venture the left fork, and the lair in the rocks, and the lynx's wrath.
One Eye half arose in his excitement, his ears up, his tail straight out and quivering behind him. The lynx's bad temper got the best of her. She sprang savagely at the thing that had hurt her. But the porcupine, squealing and grunting, with disrupted anatomy trying feebly to roll up into its ball-protection, flicked out its tail again, and again the big cat squalled with hurt and astonishment.
Ray could hear Jacques tossing things about in the obscurity of the milk-room, but plainly finding no guns, and as plainly getting colder every minute. Something must be done at once. He clutched a flat-iron in each hand, screwed his courage to the sticking point, and dropped to the floor. As he flung the door wide open, he heard the rasping of the lynx's claws on the boards behind him.
For she knew that in the lynx's lair was a litter of kittens, and she knew the lynx for a fierce, bad-tempered creature and a terrible fighter. It was all very well for half a dozen wolves to drive a lynx, spitting and bristling, up a tree; but it was quite a different matter for a lone wolf to encounter a lynx especially when the lynx was known to have a litter of hungry kittens at her back.
"Well nine sestertia to three be it so! What! again Lydon. He stops he gasps for breath. By the gods, he is down! No he is again on his legs. Brave Lydon! Tetraides is encouraged he laughs loud he rushes on him." "Fool success blinds him he should be cautious. Lydon's eye is like a lynx's!" said Clodius, between his teeth. "Ha, Clodius! saw you that? Your man totters!
The officers some with very serious and even stern faces, others with forced smiles, and all feeling extremely awkward somehow made their bows and sat down to tea. The most ill at ease of them all was Ryabovitch a little officer in spectacles, with sloping shoulders, and whiskers like a lynx's.
The messenger who was to be back soon did not return till midnight, and I thanked my stars for the escape I had had, for in such a place, full of professional gamesters, there are people whose eyes are considerably sharper than a lynx's. I put the money back in my room, and proceeded on my usual way. I found my fair nun in bed, and asked her, "How do you feel to-day, madam?"
His suit was of the speckled lynx's hide and rich black silk, upon which were embroidered many strange devices, with threads of gold. Over his shoulder was thrown his well-filled quiver, made of lion's skin; and in his hands he carried his bow of mulberry, a very beam in size, and so strong that no man save himself could bend it.
That was the end of the concert, and, as it turned out, it was also the end of the lynx's troubles, at least for the time being. Half an hour later, as she was loping along in the moonlight, she thought she heard a faint sound from beneath her feet. She stood still to listen, and the next minute she was sure.
I remember that while we were satisfied at the time that we were outside the line, we did not know what the revenue-cutter might say, and particularly the Lynx, whose captain had a hard name among our fleet for his readiness to suspect law-breaking when there wasn't any. The cutter people generally seemed to want to be fair toward us, but this Lynx's captain was certainly a vindictive cuss.
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