He made no effort to escape the attack, but met it fairly with the full force of his shoulders, as sledge-dog meets sledge-dog.

He was ten pounds heavier than the lynx, and for a moment the big loose-jointed cat with its twenty knife-like claws was thrown on its side.

Like a flash Kazan took advantage of the moment, and drove for the back of the cat's neck.
In that same moment blind Gray Wolf leaped in with a snarling cry, and fighting under Kazan's belly, she fastened her jaws in one of the cat's hindlegs.

The bone snapped.

The lynx, twice outweighed, leaped backward, dragging both Kazan and Gray Wolf.