Show WAYS OF WILD CREATURES easy victim preferred by those who prey on their fellows in a recently published book on fishing W S Hodg hodgson gon an english sportsman argues that when a fish of the tile salmon kind or a pike takes a real minnow impaled on a flight of hooks or a manufactured thing resembling sem bling a minnow the elsh Is moved less by a desiro to eat cat than by a desire to kill he lie derives this impression from the tile tact that a salmon or a trout liko him a pike will leave a whole shoal of minnows undisturbed and rush at an impaled minnow or a phantom A critic of the book says surely this is vs deiy ay iy farfetched far fetched fish and birds of prey like human beings alre re averse to unnecessary trouble and as it Is ea easier iler to catch a wounded creature than a fresh one a peregrine will tuko tako an injured grouse or a pike a tethered or spinning bait hon ahen it comes in III his way not because of the instinct which leads wild v ild animals to kill hill the weaker eaker brethren but from the natural tendency to take the goods the gods provide you in lit the shape of a cheaply earned and easy meal it may be added that old guides of northern wisconsin hold with mr that the tile muskellunge strikes the bait ordinarily only when ho he feels savage and desires to kill hill something |