Show black bass chews tobacco new yorker discovers fish that strikes at cigar butts and has haa tate taste for nicotine Dart letts N Y ajohn john J managan manager at bartletta Gart Dart letta letts has baa as aa one of his prot egea a black bass which uses tobacco the fish being an kent gent one does not smoke cigarettes but it chews mr BIT flanagan got acquainted with the habits ot at the bass basa about a month ako ago the bass favorite loafing ground la is near a powerhouse power house bouse always when mr air flanagan goes to the th powerhouse he flings the cigar he be happens to bo be smoking away kb that there wl will be no danger of fire ile he hung flung hla fits cigar into the tha water by the power houpo one day and the bass made a rush for it and grabbed it dla appearing under tinder the water mr flanagan thought little of that hat at the time for on certain days day a ban will strike nt at nearly anything on other days the in pat ost alluring bait wilt will not tempt them A day or two later he bo ilung flung another cigar butt into the water and tha ati same tish flah rose roco to it and nabbed it t after this kart had happened a dozen times mr was borcea forted to lo the conclusion that it t was wa not inere biera random hunger hanger on the tha part ot of the tha bass buta buta genuine tor for tobacco several times bof the th calgari touch much torn and graveled raveled rave ledi led have risen to the top ot of the water halt half an hour or so eo after the fish has grabbed them thus showing that the th intelligent boss bass really tried tiled to smoke the cigar but being handicapped by certain natural dlo disadvantages advantages contented itself by merely chewing the weed some of the summer cummer boarders after observing mr Fla Flana eana bass cams t to a the conclusion that a natural taste for tobacco might be inborn with fish just as it Is with deer and goats they experimented on several other fish notably a number of catfish the th catfish however when put into a tub on share chore and td fd small portions ol of navy plug cli chewing ewing tobacco became very tory nick at the stomach sli sio awful every sign of nausea and mewing pitiably this and other research along th tbt lines with dog gob fish and pickerel convinced them hem that the th lack bass basa who hangs bangs around the th powerhouse power house la Is unique jn in his bis habits |