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Show ANGRY FISH BITES ANGLER Brooklyn Man, the Sufferer, Sends Head to Pasteur Institute, Fear. Ing Rabies. Whether a tub can have hydrophobia hydro-phobia Is a question that Pied lietiry of Hancock street, Urooklyn, would like to have settled, and for that reasou be baa sunt to the Paa-teur Paa-teur liibtltuto lu New York the head of a pickerel that bit htm at Sm arts-wood arts-wood lake recently, says a New ton (N. J.) correspondent of the New York Press. Henry was Ashing In a boat that was a trllle leaky and he took off bis shoe, ami socks. Ills llrttt catch was a pickerel weighing three pound. Wbeu Le yanked the Huh It Hopped around In the bottom of the boat lu a lively fashion. As Henry was baiting up again he felt a sharp pain In one of hU feet, and, looking down, raw that the pickerel pick-erel bad made a Jump and fastened Its teeth In his toe. He tried to kick the Huh away, but the pickerel held on and Henry had to un. the handle of his landing net lo pry open the fish's Jaws before he got free of It. The toe started to swell where the teeth had punctured It, and Henry became be-came worried, lie nays he thinks It possible that the pickerel may have bad hydrophobia aud.'as a precautionary precaution-ary meaHure, he sent the head to the PaHteur Institute. |