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Rh vegetable food. He can subsist only on meat.

I think it takes a pretty smart baby of five or six months of age to go out alone in the great snow-covered forest and make his own living, don't you?

Our Lynx has many enemies—large wild animals, men with guns, but worse than all the terrible steel trap. There is no terror so keen as to get a paw caught in those cruel jaws. The only way to get free is to gnaw off one's own paw; and it takes a good deal of courage to do that. So the Lynx is taught at a very early age how to smell out the traps and avoid them.

The Canada Lynx is often called the Catamount, and Lucivee, the latter name being a corruption of the French Loupcervier, meaning deer-wolf. This Lynx is the original Lynx of the Far North. It is found in Scandinavia, northern Russia, Siberia, Alaska and Canada. In the Arctic it reaches great size. Some specimens measure more than fifty inches in length. Farther south, they rarely exceed forty inches.

In colour, our Canada fellow is a grizzled grey, with a varying hint of reddish or brownish. This