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Show Curious Courtship. Mr. Horace Hutchinson, the natu-ridlsr, natu-ridlsr, relates the story, told him by a friend, of a swim and a pike, living on and In a small piece of ornamental water, becoming friendly. Wherever the swan went the pike went too, sv Immlng alongside the bird. When the swan went ashore. It Is not roll. ro-ll. ten that the pike tried to follow, but It Is said that he waited beside thv bank, swimming up ami down in a for lorn, distracted way, until the swan eniiie back again. It was a subject of some debate whether the swan returned return-ed tin attachment, until the pike died, and the swan was so overcome with grief nt his loss that lie pined uway and soon died also. |