The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-16

look twice as big as before and from where
was could see his white teeth show
ne uldn waste time in demonstrations
Dul pushed straight for the lynx. who
was upon the wolverines back in an in
slant, and they had It hot and heavy
IN the snow The lynx was on top and all
around and over the wolverine as they
tumpled about, clawing, biting. and snarI-
ing. until presently they got locked in to-
sether, and after minute OF downright
close lighting the lynx broke away and
leaBeu back about three feet. where he
mace stand stiu guarding the deer and
looking vicious
Just as before the wolverine came
straight at him. There was another round
OF hard lighting over and about the deer.
ending in clinch, and again the lynx,
alter a minute or two of this close work
tried TO break away, but this time it was
not so easy for him to get clear. When
at last he tore loose he sprang to a tree
and ran up its trunk to the forks Of its
lower branches, where he stood looking
angrily at the wolverine. The wolverine,
atter watching his enemy in retreat and
seeing that the lynx did not seem inclined
TO renew the fight, walked round the deer.
Keeping his face all the time toward the
lynx, and fell to tearing at the haunch of
the carcass. From time TO time he lifted
his head from the deer to growl and show
MS teeth at the lynx. The lynx was in a
49, N-t-Nt -NAAANA AlAdl Brew worse ana
worse at the sight of the enjoyment of the
wolverine over his stolen meal. I made
up my mind that the fight was not over
yet.
Soon the lynx ran down from the tree
ana up another, and crept out upon big
limb so that he was almost directly over
the wolverine. The shaggy glutton kept
on eating, and I was beginning to think
that the lynx would sit there and scold
until the wolverine had satisfied his appe-
ute. But at last hunger or anger got the
best of the lynXs patience, and Just as
the wolverine had torn off a particularly
long strip of meat and was starting in
to MUNICH 1t, he came down like a gray
meteor upon the wolverine with such
force and suddenness that he knocked him
from the deer's body, and with move
ment like chain lightning. had the VOL
VERNE on his back in the snow.
1t looked all the lynx's way this time
and he worked to improve his advantage
He had the wolverine by the throat his
fore claws set in each side of her neck
and its hind claws tearing at it's belly
But the fight went right along and soon I
could see that the wolverine. graphing
with its strong claws, was holding its
enemy so close to him that the terrible
hind claws could no longer tear, and thae
his dark head and shoulder We're steadily
coming upward into view as his black
muzzle climbed round the lynx's throat
to get the hold il wanted BY main
strength il turned the lynx until the gray
and dark brown body lay side by side on
the snow. With the same deliberate dead
ly strength, all the time holding the lynx
by the throat, with grip that never re-
Taxed, the wolverine came to his feet
With a desperate effort the lynx gained
his feet, and the two animals faced each
other, neck to neck, the wolverines hold
still unbroken. AS the lynx with a last
effort sprang back, dragging the wolver-
inc with him, the shoulder and antlers
of the deer concealed the end of the strug-
gle from my view.
1.-THE next thing l saw of the two was
the wolverine dragging the body of the
lynx, limp and lifeless, away from the
deer. In an open place about ten feet
distant he let go of his conquered enc
my, and stood watching it for a minute
of two, then set his teeth into its neck
and shook it. Apparently satisfied that
it was surely dead, he dragged the body
further away into a clump of bushes, and
then went back to the deer and began
again on the haunch, as if there had been
no interruption to his meal. With almost
any other animal, after he had made so
good a fight. I would have spared him.
but l felt sure this was the wolverine that
for a fortnight past had been robbing my
traps and that he deserved no mercy at
my hands. So l fired and bowled him over
dead with shot behind the shoulder He
had been torn by the lynx in numerous
places, but his long hair and thick fur
had saved him from any severe wounds,
and if left alone by me he would probably
have looked upon the fight as little more
than grace before meat"