SWIMMERS 



birches, and have inherited their tough and elastic 

 bodies from countless generations of ancestors 

 who gained their living in a similar manner. 



While they unquestionably experience the 

 same wild joy in hunting and fishing and fight- 

 ing as other flesh-eating animals, including man 

 himself,- I am unable to discover that they are 

 in the habit of carrying it to the extreme that 

 some of the others do, being content to stop 

 killing when they have satisfied their immediate 

 hunger in most instances. 



In warm weather they often leave the fish they 

 have caught lying about on the bank, having 

 satisfied themselves with a few bits from the 

 head or back, or whatever part they find most 

 to their taste. But in winter I have never found 

 anything of the kind, and believe that they are 

 in the way of carrying off and hiding for future 

 use whatever they are unable to eat at the time, 

 though there seems to be no evidence of their 

 storing up the dead bodies of their victims by 



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