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These stern judges push the gift of exactitude, the genius of inquisition, the sharp-sightedness of lynxes, the perspicacity of account-books to the point of going over all the additions in search of subtractions. These sublime martyrs to figures have been known to return to an army commissary, after a delay of two years, some account in which there was an error of two farthings.
The truth is, they were upon a timbered stream an affluent of the Trinity river; and as the latter was at this season overflowed, all the wild animals bears, cougars, wolves, lynxes, and javalies had been driven out of the low bottoms, and were roaming through the adjacent woods, more hungry and fierce than they commonly are.
With so many enemies, it is a matter of wonder that this species has not long been extirpated; not only has man been its constant and persevering destroyer, but it has a host of enemies besides, in the cougar, the lynxes, the wolverine, and the wolves. The last are its worst foes. Hunters state that for one deer killed by themselves, five fall a prey to the wolves.
Every appliance and assistance that money can buy, the modern sportsman secures to help him against the game. The game is beset during its breeding season by various wild enemies, foxes, cats, wolves, pumas, lynxes, eagles, and many other predatory species.
This is another evidence of the straits the Lynxes are put to for food, in this year of famine. The last woods is a wonderfully interesting biological point or line; this ultimate arm of the forest does not die away gradually with uncertain edges and in steadily dwindling trees.
They would creep forward a step or two, then crouch in the snow, like a cat warming her feet, and stare at me unblinkingly for a few moments. Then another hitch or two, which brought them nearer, and another stare. I could not look at one steadily, to make him waver; for the moment my eyes were upon him the others hitched closer; and already two more lynxes were coming over the log.
"It's lynxes!" she cried, snatching up the wooden spoon and darting for the door. "And they've got one of the sheep! Oh, oh, they're tearing it!" "Melindy!" shouted the old woman, in a voice of strident command such a compelling voice that the girl stopped short in spite of herself. "Drop that fool spoon and get the gun!"
They had set guards: but these, it seems, were drowsy or negligent; for the ten Iroquois, watching their time, approached with the stealth of lynxes, and glided like shadows into the midst of the camp, where, by the dull glow of the smouldering fires, they could distinguish the recumbent figures of their victims.
"There were wildcats and foxes and a pair of big, tuft-eared, wild-eyed lynxes living about the lake, and these all came creeping up one after another, under the cover of the thickets, to stare in amazement at the alien little one so tenderly mothered by the great cow moose.
Of the lynxes of the Old World, there is the common or European lynx, which is still found in several European countries; the Caracal, a native of Africa and part of Asia; the Booted lynx, also indigenous to both continents; the Chaus, belonging to the country of the Mahrattas; the Kattlo, a large species, of Northern Europe; the Nubian lynx, of North Africa; and the Southern lynx, a native of Spain.
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