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Show WAYS OF WILD CREATURES. Easy Victim Preferred by Thois Who Prey on Their Fellows. In a recently published book on fishing, W. S. Hodgson, an English Bportsman, argues that when a fish ot the salmon kind, or a plko, taken a real minnow Impaled on a flight ot hooks or a manufactured thing resembling re-sembling a minnow tho flsh Is moved less by a desire to cat than by a do-slro do-slro to kill. He derives this Impression Impres-sion from the fact that "a salmon or a trout, llko a pike, will leavo a wholo shoal of minnows undisturbed, and rush at an Impaled minnow, or a phantom." phan-tom." A critic of tho book Bays: "Surely this Is vory farfetched. Fish and birds of proy, llko human beings, aro averso to unnecessary trouble, and as It Is easier to catch a wounded creature than a fresh one, a peregrlno will tnko nn Injured grouso or a plko a tethered or spinning halt when It comes In his way, not because of tho Instinct which leads wild animals to kill tho weaker brethren, but from tho natural tendoncy to 'tako tho goods tho gods provldo you' In tho Bhapo of n cheaply earned and easy meal." It may bo added thnt old guides ot northern Wisconsin hold with Mr. Hodgson thnt tho muskol-lungo muskol-lungo strikes the bait ordinarily only when ho feels savngo and deslros to kill something. |