turing a grasshopper would carefully crawl out on a half submerged log, 

 and throw the bait perhaps two feet up stream. If a fish rose the cat 

 would immediately seize it, using his strong talons after the style of the 

 famous eagle-claw, which was used so successfully for fishing in years 

 gone by. 



The cat seldom failed to retain his hold on a fish, and would drag it 

 along over the water to the shore in quite a scientific manner. After hav- 

 ing the benefit of two years' experience, the cat learned to select the best 

 natural bait, sometimes using frogs, and at other times grasshoppers or 

 large houseflies, and I have always regarded the sagacity and skill of that 

 feline angler with much admiration. I could never make the cat fish for 

 catfish, but he was a keen angler for game fish. 



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