FISHING FOR "BULL-HEADS" 



dened " bull-head " swallows the pork down 

 to the end of his aforementioned tail, a gentle 

 " heave-yo " is made and the surprised fish 

 begins to ascend from his turgid retreat. The 

 flavor of the pork is very dear to him, and 

 stubbornness is one of his marked character- 

 istics, as is also his lack of perceptive facul- 

 ties whence the name " bull-head." So he 

 hangs on to the fat and is up out of the water 

 before he realizes the situation. A gentle 

 jerk or a moderately brisk one and the 

 smooth bait slides out of his body and he 

 flops helplessly at the feet of the fisherman, 

 who, with appropriate ghoulish glee, takes 

 him gingerly by his tail and drops him into a 

 convenient basket. 



And even thus the armored and stubborn 

 " bull-head " may be, and, indeed, is, circum- 

 vented, and the weapons nature has provided 

 him with are made useless by the wiles of man. 

 Therefore leave all fancy paraphernalia of 

 rod and creel, of fly-hook and landing-net, of 

 bait-can and minnow-bucket at home when 

 you go forth to capture the unsophisticated 

 " bull-head." 



It must not seriously be supposed that this 

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