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Show WAYS OF WILD CREATURE3.. Easy Victim preferred by Those Wh Prey on Their Fellows. K In a recently published book- on fishing, Wi S. Hodgson, an English sportsman, argues that when a fish of tho salmon kind, or a plko, takes a real minnow impalod on a flight of , hooks or a manufactured thing resembling re-sembling a minnow tho fish is movod less by a desire to eat than by- a do-Blro do-Blro to kill. Ho derives this imprc3-Blon imprc3-Blon from the fact that "a salmon or a trout, llko a plko, will leavo a. whole shoal of minnows undisturbed, nnd rush at an Impaled minnow, or a phnn-torn." phnn-torn." A critic of tho book says: "Surely this Is very far-fetched. Fish and birds of proy, llko human beings, aro averse to unnecessary trouble, and as It is easier to catch a wounded creature than a fresh one, a poregrlno J will take an injured grouBo or a plko a tethered or spinning bait when it comes in his way, not becauso of tho- instinct which lends wild animals .to-kill .to-kill tho weaker brethren, but from tho natural tendency to 'tako tho goods tho gods provldo you' in the-shape the-shape of a cheaply earned and easy l meal." It may bo added that old guides of northern Wisconsin hold with Mr. Hodgson that tho muskel-lungo muskel-lungo strikes tho bait ordinarily only whon ho feels Bavago and desires to kill something. |