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Show WAYS OF WILD CREATURES. Easy Wctlm Preferred by Those Who Prey on Their Fellows. Iu a recently published book on fishing, V. S. Hodgson, an English sportsman, argues that when a fish of the salmon kind, or a plku, takos a teal minnow Impaled on a flight of hooks or a manufactured thing resembling re-sembling a minnow the fish Is moved less by a dcslru to eat than by a desire de-sire to kill. Ho derives this Impression Impres-sion fiom the fact that "n salmon or a trout, Hko a pike, will leave a wholo 1 shoal of minnows undisturbed, and rush nt an Impaled minnow, or n phan-' torn." A critic of tho book says: "Surely this is very far-fetched. Fish nnd birds of prey, like humau'belngs, aro averse to unnecessary trouble, and ns It is easier to catch n wounded creature than a fresh one, a peregrlno wilt take an injured grouso or a plko a tethered or spinning bait when it somes In his waj not because of the instinct which lends wild animals to kill tho weaker brethren, but from the natural tendency to 'take the goods tho gods provldo j'ou' In tho ' shape of a cheaply earned and easy ' meal." It may bo added that old guides of northern Wisconsin hold with Air. Hodgson that tho muskel-lungo muskel-lungo strikes tho halt ordinarily only when he feels savago and desires to kill something. |