Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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spring, hoping thereby to paralyzetheir victims with fright. A leopard, on the other hand, springs silently,which makes it more to be feared. A hunter tells of seeing a full grown lion stalk a bull giraffe. The lionwas careful to keep down wind from the giraffe, and as it crept closer andcloser it seemed to be just a shadow on the ground. The giraffe walkedforward some hundred yards or more until a bush was between itself andthe lion. This was the latters opportunity, for it crept up within springingdistance without being seen. The lion crouched, its muscles standing out,drawn tight with the tension, waiting its chance. Suddenly it sprang witha roar and gripped its victim close to the neck. The giraffe started ofi at agallop but it was of no avail, for the lion had a firm hold and its powerfulclaws sank in deeper and deeper until from exhaustion caused by loss ofblood the giraffe stumbled on its knees and fell over dead. The lion spranglightly aside and stood looking at its handiwork.
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A LYNXS ATFACK UPON AN IBEX FAM1L\. A FIGHT BETWEEN AN IBEX AND A LYNX Some of the Lynx family seem to prefer living in the mountains to theforests, and seldom come down to the valleys unless badly pressed by hunger.Lynx are often found far above the snow-line, which averages ten thousandfeet in height. On one occasion a hunter had been trying for several hours to get neara lynx whose form he had made out with his glass as it was stealthily movingover the rocks in search of food. The lynx had not seen the hunter, or itwould have made off to a place of safety but it appeared to be uneasy, asthough it felt some danger was near, for perhaps a whiff of the dreaded smellof man had reached it. Suddenly the hunter npticed that the lynx stiffened like a coiled spring,as if it had sighted some prey. All thought of its man enemy was forgotten,and the hunter crept up closer and closer without causing the animal theleast alarm. From the high elevation which the hunter had reached he finallysaw wh

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