One morning when the Townsend family were living in the olf house (the Pollard place), the back room door had been left open, Gramp, coming in from the barn, discovered a bobcat eating garbage in the wood shed.
As Father entered, the bobcat ran into the kitchen and Gramp ran after it. From the kitchen the bobcat scooted into the buttery. Father quickly shut the door, having the bobcat caged for the time being. Father then secured Mother and the baby in the bedroom.
Then Father set steel traps in the doorways and all through the kitchen and back sheds. He opened the buttery door, expecting the animal to run out, but not a sound of him was heard. Father could not see anything of the bobcat and decided it must be hiding in back of the flour barrel. He kicked his foot into the small opening on the side of the barrel to scare the bobcat out. Father had on a pair of long rubber boots and the bobcat took a chunk right out of his boot, just grazing his toe. Then the animal dashed out the open door and into the traps.
Father said the bobcat jingled like sleigh bells with all the traps clinging to him when he climbed up the shed posts, jumping three or four feet, the chains and traps clanging and banging all the while. Father got a big club, and that was the end of the bobcat episode.
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