Show american sucker a U unique fish which carries own bait greed and dishonesty although more than different varieties of fish already have been catalogued cataloguer catalo gued and new types con scantly are being brought to light there Is only one species which carries its own bait this unique fish is commonly known as the sucker bait is a mixture of greed and dishonesty says a writer in the C chicago dally daily news thousands of these fish are arc hooked every year by con men who although using a variety of lines toss out the same old hook which has caught the over greedy suckers for generations the fishermen themselves have a very low code of morals but they live up to it and do not class themselves with crooks or thieves we just work the suckers one remarked and if the fish perfectly willing tg t grab off some other suckers kale he t take ake the hook farmers bite I 1 should say not he replied in answer to a query as to where the best fishing grounds were country folk work hard for their money and want to investigate before they thy lay out a dollar the big cities are filled with fish that have the bait in plain sight and all one needs to land them is a good line and a fairly strong hook what chance would a guy have to take a roll of silk cut it up into dress lengths and then go to some little country town and try to sell these dress goods is as material which had been smuggled through tile the cus toms the dear old lady w would go to the phone and give three long rings and a short one and the entire town would know that n smuggler was sitting in her kitchen and the town marshal would be on the scene before you could say jack robinson with your mouth open when the silk was taken do n to the general store and found to hove have been grown in the carolinas Caroll nas the sherman fisherman fl would be called on to change his line and hook for a heavy sledge hammer and be sentenced to make canary bird tombstones out of big granite rocks 1 I can take those same silks into new york chicago or almost any other big town put on some oily soiled overalls and a blue flannel S shirt hirt and hand out a line about hav ing just come oft off an ocean steamship and succeeded in smuggling goods through the customs and I 1 will hook from 10 to 20 fish in a couple of hours cora con men ahu invent new tackle look in scorn on those who persist in employing lines and hooks which have used for far generations it Is almost that a man who had made a success of a legitimate business to the extent of a nest egg of to would lay his entire savings on the line in some game which has rec received elvea so BO much publicity in the press that the average reader should recognize line and hook at once |