Show r WA WAYS YS OF WILD CREATURES Easy Victim Preferred by Those Who pr Prey y on Their Fellows Fellows In a recently published book on onI J f I fishing W W. S. S Hodgson an English sportsman argues that when a fish sh of the salmon kind or a pike takes a areal areal areal real minnow Impaled on a flight of hooks or a manufactured thing resembling resembling resembling re re- a minnow the fish is moved f less by a desire to eat than by a desire desire de de- sire to kill He derives this impression Impression sion sian from the fact that a ua salmon or r a trout like a pike will leave a whole shoal of minnows undisturbed and andrush and andrush andrush rush at fit t an minnow impaled Impaled minnow or or a phan phan- tom tam tom A critic of the book says far fetched Fish sh Surely this is very F and nd birds of prey like human beings ore ire re averse to unnecessary essary trouble and andas I k as It Is easier to catch atch a wounded t creature than a fresh one a peregrine will take an Injured grouse or a pike a a tethered or spinning bait w when ien en it E comes in his way not Dot because of the instinct which leads wild animals to Std f kill the weaker brethren but from 7 the natural tendency to take the 1 goods the gods provide you In the v. v shape of a cheaply earned and easy I v. meal It may be added that old guides of northern Wisconsin hold holdy f i y 0 y with Mr Hodgson that the muskellunge n kel r lunge strikes the bait baJt ordinarily only f. f when he feels savage and desires to km kill something |