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Show TWO FISH PROBLEMS. ObBorvatlonH nnd Kcflertlons of IJack-wnods IJack-wnods Sugo. "Do fish feel pain ?" I dunno 1 never woh a fish, says n writer in Outing. Yot I hnve .observed freshly-landed fish to execute certain movements which seemed to iildicato. that tho fitdi felt something:; .inebbe 'twasn't pain. It n,ny have been simply agony, or any old tiling" Illcc that. Those who used in ihcir younger days to carry in their trousers pocket a cork stuck full of hooka may remember occasions when a hook worked free from tho coik. Once I accidentally hooked a pointer dog by the car, and the luiifrungo ho used and the way he ran out of lino convinced mo that he felt something. Tie mny have felt only a pi en win t sanation, sa-nation, but ho didn't com'1 within 60 feet of me for two hours. The dc pointe sagging buck and zigzag resistance of a hooked iish, the wild flipllaps and btiaiuing gasps of a freshly-landed ilah may be evidences of pleasurable st:i-nations, st:i-nations, but T am tempted to consider them as closely allied to that Soyou.j thrill which prompts a man to rise above the insiduous caress of a strong, v ell-bent pin. "Do fish feed at nifcht?" Well, well do fish swim? Country boys, how about the big fire becidc the water? How about the boy who got first to the big boom and thus socurefl the bos.s place? How about theipiky-fiuned theipiky-fiuned channel cats and mud cj. that came up two ut a time; tho goggle-eyed rock bass, special prizes; the hideout, "mud puppies," which at once wem into the (iro along with a yard of lino? ffow nhout the night lines? How about werything connected with the sport that used to get better and bettor ni midnight approached, until the glorious glo-rious fun und occasional profanity were interrupted by the sound of the "old man" falling foul of a who fence or breaking a gad from tho plum tree up the bank? Do fish feed at night V 1 dunno they used to. |