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Show TWO FISHfjfoBLEMS. ObnorvatloiiB unit Kollettlonn or a Back-wood Back-wood a Huge. "Do fish feel pain?" Idunno I never wbb ti fish, says a writer in Outing. Yet I have observed freshly-landed fish to execute certain movements which seemed to indicate that the fish felt souicthing; niebbe 'twasn't paiu..jlt may have been" simply agony, or any old thing like that. Those who usedJHn their ypunger days to' carry in their troUsers pocket, a cork stuck fulf of hooks may remember occasions -when u hook worked free from the cork. Once 1 accidentally hooked a pointer dog by the car, and the language he used and thu way he ran out of lino convinced me that he felt something. He may have felt only a pleasant sensation, sen-sation, but he didn't come within CO' feet of me for two hours. The desperate sagging back und zigzag resistance of a hooked fish, the wild ilipflaps and Straining gasps of a freshly-landed fish may bo evidences of pleasurable sensations, sen-sations, but I am tempted to consider them ns closely allied to that joyou-t thrill which prompts a man to rise above the insiduous caress of a 'strong, well-bent pin. "Do fish feed at night?" Well, well do fish swim? Country lioys, how about the big fire beside tho 'water? How about the boy who got first to the big boom and thus secured The boss place? How about tin-spiky-finned eha A cats and mud cuts that came up t. .a a time; the goggle-eyed rock bass, special prizes; the hideous "mud puppies," which at once went into the fire along with a yard of line? Ifow about the night lines? How about everything connected with the sport that used to get better and better as midnight uppronche'd, -until the glo-tious glo-tious fun and occasional profanity were interrupted by the sound of the "old man" falling foul of a wire, fence or breaking a gad from the plum tree up the bank? Do fish feed at night? 1 dunno they used to. |
