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Show WAYS OF WILD CREATURE8. Easy Victim Preferred by Those Who j Prey on Their Fellows. ' In a recently published book on j fishing, 8. Hodgson, an English Bportsman, nrgues that when a fish of tho salmon kind, or u pike, takes a real minnow Impaled on a flight of hooks or a manufactured thing re-sombling re-sombling a minnow the llsh is moved less by a desire to eat than by a desire de-sire to kill. Ho derives this impres-! slon from the fact that salmon or a trout, like a pike, will loavo a whole I shoal of minnows undisturbed, and ' rush at an Impaled minnow, or a phantom." phan-tom." A critic of the book says: "Surely this is very farfetched. Fish and birds of prey, like human beings, aro averse to unnecessary trouble, and as it Is easier to catch a wounded creature than a fresh one, a peregrino I will tako an Injured grouse or a plko I a tethered or spinning bait when it comes in his way, not hocauso of tho Instinct which leads wild animals to kill tho weaker brethien, but from the natural tendency to 'tako tho goods tho gods provldo you' in tho shapo of a, cheaply earned and easy meal." It may be added that old guides of northern Wisconsin hold with Mr. Hodgson that tho inuskel-lungo inuskel-lungo strikes tlio halt onllnnrlly only when ho feels savogo and desires to Kill something. |