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hook, if it merely catches him by his lips, he feels 

 scarcely any pain worth mentioning, and I go on 

 these simple grounds ; after having been hooked 

 and carrying off hook and part of the line with him, 

 he will often snap up the bait and a hook when offered 

 him in a few minutes after his first escape : it may be 

 said he only sees the bait and not the hook ; we will 

 allow this, but judging by myself, I think if I had 

 had a proportionate hook thrust through my mouth, 

 I should not feel disposed for lunch in a few minutes 

 after the occurrence. 



But to return for a moment to the worm: it is quite 

 true he does twist in all directions when on the hook, 

 but hold him by the head or tail with the finger and 

 thumb, he would twist just the same, so I consider 

 his doing so as efforts to escape, not the writhings 

 of agony. 



It would be most fallacious to attribute the same 

 sensibility of feeling to all animals, but the agony 

 occasioned by intense pain is, no doubt, the same 

 in all, the difference only being, that what occasions 

 acute pain to one, does not to the other ; the stroke 



