Once he had fought a lynx in a trap, and he had not forgotten the lesson the battle had taught him.

From the night of the terrible fight with the big gray lynx on the top of the Sun Rock, Kazan remembered less and less vividly the old days when he had been a sledge-dog, and the leader of a pack.

A man from civilization would have said that the dog was approaching the lynx with friendly intentions.

And he took bigger chances than ever with the lynx under the windfall.

Besides, there are many foreign nuns with great flapping caps travelling about here, who are lynxes for that sort of work, and I am terrified lest they should pounce on my daughter.

The Frenchman made no effort at attack; his were the tactics of the wolf at the heels of the bull moose, of the lynx before the prongs of a cornered bucktiring, worrying, ceaseless.

"I can quite believe that our friend is able to call a wolf or a lynx to him," he said.

she cried, in that clear voice which seemed to leave a floating melody in the air, "I have talked with my Sisters of the Murmuring Skies, and none but the lynx at my feet heard us.

They were out by day with the Big Man and Ben to look for game, and once nearly went wild with excitement when they saw an Eskimo take a large gray lynx from his trap.