Winamac High School - Totem Yearbook (Winamac, IN)

THE TOTEM 17 the death it died; even before the a large creature like a big bob-tailed others bad time to fly the lynx was kitten appeared and Looked Lnquir- gone with its prey squirming in its ingly at him. Then a second one thai jaws. he had not noticed began to play with One day Sam had gone without a the first. He had almost raised his gun as lie on ' y meant to gather some gun when a fierce grow] close at hand wjntergreen berries lie had seen. As startled him and turning around, not he cane to the place which he reCOg- ten feet away stood the mother lynx, nized by a fallen elm. his eye caught tierce, and as big as a tigress. Before two moving things on the log. They he was ready to shoot at her, how- were the head and tail of an enorm- ever, she had picked up something ous lynx, the body being invisible he- near her feet; the boy got a glimpse of came it was so nearly the color of the :i newly killed fawn; then she passed log. She had seen him and was glar- out of sight. The kittens followed ing and grumbling; under one paw and he saw no more until he was less was a white bird that at a second able to shoot than then. glance proved to he one of their Six weeks passed until one day precious hens. How tierce and cruel Ned arose and went to the woods to the brute looked! How Sam hated work, feeling unusually bad. He it! As he stood wondering what to came home early and was trembling do, the lynx growled more loudly, from head to foot. After several picked up its victim, and leaping from hours he was in a high fever and in the log, was lost to view. spite of ad their herbs and nursing On another day he came upon pig- the young man got worse. At the like footprints in the woods. Later end often days he couldn ' t work. he caught sight of a mother deer, " Say, girls; I can ' t stand it any searching through the woods, trying longer, Ouess I better go home. the ground for trails. Sam remem- I ' m well enough to drive today. bered a trick Ned had told him. Mot her ' II have me all righl in a week Making a whistle out of a broad or so. " blade of grass, he gave a short, shrill Half a week had scarcely gone he- ld at. and the deer, though a long fore all three of them, Sam. Helen and way off, came bounding toward him. Mabel, were taken down with chills He snatched his gun. meaning to kill and fever. her, but he desisted when she stopped Soon Sam was the only one ah ' e to and looked inquiringly at him. Her rise, and one morning when lie big, soft eyes touched his heart, and dragged himself to cut as usual the as she bounced behind a large tree little slice of their treasured bacon, he exclaimed: " Poor thing. I he- he found to his horror that the whole lieve she has lost her little one. " piece was gone. He was in despair Half an hour after seeing this lonely when his eves lighted on the chickens deer as he passed the huge basswood, in the stable. There were only torn-