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Show WAY8 OF WILD CREATURB8. Easy Victim Preferred by These Who Prey on Their Fellows. In a recently published book on fishing, W. S. Hodgson, an English sportsman, aigues that when a flab of tho salmon kind, or a plko, takes a real minnow impaled on a flight of hooks or a manufactured thing resembling re-sembling a minnow tho fish is moved less by a desire to cut than by u de-Biro de-Biro to kill. Ito derives this Impression Impres-sion from the fact that "n salmon or a trout, llko a pike, will leave n whole shoal of minnows undisturbed, nnd rush at an impaled minnow, or a phantom." phan-tom." A critic of tho book snys: "Surely this Is very farfotched. Fish nnd blidf of pruy, Ilka human beings, are nverse 'o unnecessary trouble, and as It is easier to catch a. wounded creature than a flesh ono, n peregrlna wilt take an Injured grouso or a plka a tethered or spinning bait when It comes In his way, not because of the Instinct which leads wild nnlmnls to kill tho weaker brethron, but from tho natural tendency to 'take tho goods tho gods provldo you' In tho shape of n cheaply earned nnd easy meal." It may bo added that old guides of northern Wisconsin hold with Air. Hodgson that tho musket-lunge musket-lunge strikes the halt ordinarily only when he feols savnge and desires to kill something |