And at that same instant, or a moment later--well, you remember the scream of the lynx!" "You believe that it might have been a lynx, startled by the shot, and sent screaming across the plain ?" "Yes." "Impossible.

At the sound of that shot a lynx would have remained as still as death!" "Still there are always exceptions," persisted the white youth.
"Not in the case of lynx," declared Wabigoon.

"No animal made those cries.

Mukoki is as fearless as a lion.

The cry of a lynx would have stirred his blood with pleasure instead of fear.