A beast, the lusetan or ounce?

[Wilson Gray]

Whoa! Far out! I've never come across anybody else who was familiar
with the B of K, before! Who knew?!

-Wilson

On 7/15/06, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson Gray wrote:
> > According to "The Book of Knowledge - the children's encylopedia,"
> > ca.1943, an "ounce" is a snow leopard. I.e., there's a photo of some
> > kind of leopard-looking big cat on a snowbank and the caption reads:
> > "An ounce or snow leopard."
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> Thank you! I've been wrestling with a vague memory that it referred to
> something larger than a lynx, and this fills the bill - I devoured _The
> Book of Knowledge_ in my youth.
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> Jim Parish
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