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Show ANGRY FISH EITES ANGLER Brooklyn Man, the Sufferer, Sends Head to Pasteur Institute, Fear-Ing Fear-Ing Rabies. Whether a fish can have hydrophobia hydro-phobia is a question that Fred Henry of Hancock street, Brooklyn, would like to have settled, and for that reason ho has sent to the Pasteur Pas-teur institute in New York the head of a pickerel that bit him at Swarts-wood Swarts-wood lake recently, says a Newton (N. J.) correspondent of the New York Press. Henry was fishing in a boat that was a trifle leaky and he took off his shoes and socks. His first catch was a pickerel weighing three pounds. When he yanked the fish it flopped around in the bottom o the boat in a lively fashion. As Henry was baiting up again he felt a sharp pain in one of his feet, and, looking down, saw that the pickerel pick-erel had made a jump and fastened its teeth in his toe. He tried to kick the fish away, but the pickerel held on and Henry had to se the handle of his landing net to 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. He says he thinks it possible that the pickerel may have had hydrophobia and, as a precautionary precaution-ary measure, he sent the head to the Pasteur institute. |