Chumfo, the Super-sense 



and some to spare; but on the other eight days, 

 some clear and some stormy, when the wind was 

 north of east or west, not a trout was seen or 

 caught, and only once was a minnow of mine 

 missing. 



It may be said that the trout simply followed 

 their food-supply; but I doubt this, since trout ap- 

 parently feed very little in winter; and in formu- 

 lating any theory of the matter one must account 

 for the fact that big fish or little fish moved shore- 

 ward whenever the wind blew south. The phe- 

 nomenon may appear less foreign to our experience, 

 though not less mysterious to our reason, if we 

 rememoer that an old wound or a corn may by 

 its aching foretell a storm, or that a person suf- 

 fering from nervous prostration may by his sud- 

 den depression know that the barometer will soon 

 be falling. 



The same bodily sensitiveness appears un- 

 changed in our domestic animals. I once saw a 

 deer and her two fawns kneel down in the woods, 

 and watched them in astonishment as they rested 

 for some time on their knees, as if in supplica- 

 tion; then the ground rocked under me, and I 

 knew that their feet had felt the tremor of an 

 earthquake long before I was sensible of it. Such 

 an observation seemed wonderful to me till I 

 learned that our sheep are equally sensitive in their 



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