Concerning the Cruelty of Angling 



goes for a shiner, or for that matter his own 

 offspring a fierce rush, in it goes, and all 

 is over till the next follows on, and this 

 continues for all time, the larger swallow 

 the smaller if left to themselves. I have 

 seen a trout tear the limb from a frog in a 

 twinkling, his intention was to take the 

 whole, but a slight miscalculation foiled the 

 feast only for a minute then another 

 dash toward the wounded creature, and he 

 too is gone. This same trout (the brown 

 species) being a captive must needs eat, and 

 shortly afterward swallowed four six-inch 

 trout in as many minutes, and would have 

 taken more had he room to place them. 

 Watch a school of young fry madly leaping 

 from the shallows as if trying to escape 

 from their natural element it is some 

 marauding tyrant taking his daily meal, 

 or perhaps the mother of these young fish, 

 which is an ordinary event in fish life. To 

 eat is the main object of their existence. 

 The bluefish, wanton tiger of the seas, will 

 fill himself full, and disgorge for the mere 

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