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Show PLEASURE FOR THE LOBSTER Assertion Is Made That He Really Enjoys En-joys the Sensation of Being Boiled Alive. Do you think that slowly boiling to dentil would bo a happy way of "crossing "cross-ing tho grcnt divide?" Woll, probably if you wero a lobster you would think so. ' Experiments at tho Jersey marine biological station havo shown that tho old-tlmo method ot dropping Mr. Lobster Lob-ster In cold water, then letting him hont up gradually until his lobster soul has departed from his body Is really n pleasuro to him, even if it is tho last fun he'll over havo. Lobsters, you see, aro extremely difficult dif-ficult to kill. Piercing tho brain-about brain-about tho slzo of a hemp seed docs no good, becnuso it causes tho lobster no moro than temporary annoyance It Is therefore necessary to kill tho crustacean all over. To throw him into boiling water causes him to struggle vlolontly, Bhow. lng ho suffers pain, but whon you drop him Into tho cold water and It gradual, ly rises in tempcrnturo Mr. Lobster simply gotB warm, then drowsy, and finally tucks ono claw under his head nnd passes away into tho sleep of tho just. At 70 degrees Fahrenheit Mr. Lob-Btor Lob-Btor is in a comatoso -condition but has suffered no pain. At 80 ho is as dead as a stono wall. |