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makes an equal effort to get away, no matter whether the 

 hook has caught in the mouth, gills, or fin. 



" In the case mentioned in the Society, some weeks ago, by 

 Dr. Warwick, we may safely doubt whether the actions of the 

 pike he spoke of, were due, as he supposed, to extreme pain, 

 for these reasons — that brain and bone are both peculiarly 

 insensible under ordinary circumstances, and that, in man at 

 least, the greater the amount of injury inflicted the less the 

 amount of suffering felt. 



" The perch, a fine bold biter, well known to lazy fisher- 

 men, has been hooked by myself on one occasion in the eye ; 

 it, however, contrived to break away, but was shortly after- 

 wards caught by his own eye, winch proved an attractive bait, 

 from its shining qualities. 



" What idea, I would ask, can we form of pain in any crea- 

 ture who, when thus mutilated, could enjoy a deliberate meal ? 



" I have, also, in clear water, repeatedly noticed the same 

 fish come to the hook again and again, even after it has 

 torn him, though not seriously. 



" Captain Chamier states as a fact, that he has known 

 sharks which have been taken by a bait, hooked and drawn 

 up so close to the ship's side that harpoons have been driven 

 into them, contrive to break away, and yet return directly to 

 snatch at a fresh bait. 



" I cannot refrain from noticing here the remark of a very 

 pious clergyman, with whom I was conversing on this subject. 

 After stating broadly that he had long been led to believe that 

 we laid too much stress upon the existence of pain in the lower 

 animals, he came to speak more particularly of the infliction 

 produced in fishing with a worm or fly. ' We must bear in 

 mind/ he said, ' that our Saviour himself, who to all virtue 

 and goodness added all knowledge, directed his apostle Peter 

 to go to the sea and cast a hook (which we presume must have 

 had a bait of some sort attached to it), and take up the first 

 fish that came up and search in his mouth for a piece of 



