1 In that instant the lynx struck.
2 The lynx's bad temper got the best of her.
3 A lynx's lair is not despoiled with impunity.
4 It was the maker of the track, a large female lynx.
5 It was a lynx kitten, partly grown, like the cub, but not so large.
6 Once, the cub sprang in and sank his teeth into the hind leg of the lynx.
7 Hunting herself for meat, up the left fork of the stream where lived the lynx, she had followed a day-old trail of One Eye.
8 There were many signs of the battle that had been fought, and of the lynx's withdrawal to her lair after having won the victory.
9 His mother had satisfied her hunger elsewhere; though he did not know that it was the rest of the lynx litter that had gone to satisfy her.
10 The ball of quills might have been a stone for all it moved; the lynx might have been frozen to marble; and old One Eye might have been dead.
11 Before she went away, the she-wolf had found this lair, but the signs told her that the lynx was inside, and she had not dared to venture in.
12 At the end of that time the lynx was devoured, while the she-wolf's wounds had healed sufficiently to permit her to take the meat-trail again.
13 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.
14 The two animals threshed about, the lynx ripping and tearing with her claws and using her teeth as well, while the she-wolf used her teeth alone.
15 Because of the low-roofed entrance the lynx could not leap in, and when she made a crawling rush of it the she-wolf sprang upon her and pinned her down.
16 The next moment the two mothers separated, and, before they rushed together again, the lynx lashed out at the cub with a huge fore-paw that ripped his shoulder open to the bone and sent him hurtling sidewise against the wall.
17 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.
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