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CHARACTERISTIC HABITS OF VARIOUS SUR- 

 FACE AND BOTTOM CREATURES 

 THAT GAME-FISH EAT 



THEIR RELATIVE VALUE AS BAITS 



The different creatures here mentioned I think 

 best to describe in a separate chapter from the 

 minnows in order to fit in with the illustrations. 

 It is a remarkable and perhaps a wise provision 

 of nature that not one of the creatures that game- 

 fishes comsume as food is considered fit for human 

 beings to eat. All of them live and breed in or 

 adjacent to the water, and while limited in num- 

 ber, they are remarkably diverse in their char- 

 acteristic habits. I give here a few notes — along 

 with colored pictures — to briefly describe them, 



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