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so that I could catch them that way much more readily than with 

 bait. I hold that this way of fishing is much more exciting than 

 any other. You cannot blame little fish and turtles for stealing 

 your bait as an excuse for not catching any fish ; and if you do not 

 get a fish it is your fault entirely, and if you do it is a great and 

 new sensation to feel that you have actually put the hook in his 

 mouth with your own hands. 



Of course a person new in the business might not even be able to 

 see the fish stick his mouth out of water, to say nothing of jabbing 

 the hook into the mouth of the fish. They are very shy until they 

 get used to you, and that takes several days. I always start in 

 feeding them for three days, not trying to catch them at all, just 

 getting acquainted with them. 



Some things carp eat besides those mentioned heretofore are: 

 small fish in great numbers, large tadpoles, water-spiders, soft 

 roots of grasses and plants, dragonflies, mosquitoes, fish eggs, fish 

 of their own size, when these die by accident or disease, and many 

 miscellaneous things that are always finding their way into streams, 

 as small birds, rabbits, squirrels, and lizards. 



The more we learn — the more we want to learn. When we find 

 a few interesting facts about the carp we want to learn more ; and 

 there is always more to learn, — so let us on. 



The Origin of the Earth. Thos. C. Chamberlin, pp. XII + 272. 

 The University of Chicago Press. $1.50. 



This is a masterly presentation of a great theory put so clearly 

 that the layman may read it with delight. The old nebula 

 hypothesis of LaPlace and similar theories of the origin of the earth 

 having proven inadequate, Professor Chamberlin and others have 

 worked out a new theory of origin which is here presented. 



The first three chapters deal with the crucial defects of the older 

 theories. Chapters four and five trace the groping forward into 

 the new point of view which is stated in chapters VI and VII. 

 This is the planetessional hypothesis and is briefly that the original 

 earth was a large fragment in the midst of multitudes of fragments 

 that pulled away from a nebulous mass, the residue of which is the 

 sun. The earth grew in size as the large mass accumulated the 

 smaller ones by gravitation. Chapters VIII and IX deal with the 

 juvenile shaping of the earth and its reorganization. Chapter X 

 discusses the emergence of the living from the non living. 



