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belly. All three weigh less than a quarter of an 
ounce each. 
The size and bulk is the only thing against it 
being used as a fly. Nevertheless, it can be 
forced out and cast by the lightest trout rod. As 
it rests on the water, the slightest agitation of 
the rod-tip will make the frog move its legs in 
the attitude of swimming. It is taken for 
granted, anglers know that all artificial lures 
when grabbed, that a rapid, though slight wrist- 
movement must be made to embed the hook. 
All natural bait is first captured, held in the 
mouth and gorged at leisure. Only flies are 
gorged at once when taken. 
I have a particular antipathy to that horrible 
method known as “trolling,” and I don’t mucn 
enjoy or find sport in “still fishing”—when you 
sit in a boat on a lake, chuck overboard a lot o. 
ground-bait, then drop to the bottom a big night- 
walker worm, to shortly pull up a fat lazy trout, 
whom everybody says “can’t be caught any other 
way” except on rare occasions in spring when 
they sometimes rise to flies. 
I don’t believe these methods to be the “only 
way” to get fish from deep water. I know these 
new floating frogs, or minnow nature lures, will 
attract fish to the surface of lake or stream. 
They will catch big trout and big bass. 
An Artificial Frog That Floats and Kicks. 
To reduce my argument down to “tin tacks” I 
offer brother anglers what are sensible, true 
copies—artistic lures that do represent food of 
game fishes, floating naturally at or near the sm- 
face, to be played in the highest fly-fishing style, 
yet very simple method. 
I shall construct these lures for myself and pos¬ 
sibly a few friends who might desire to try them 
at the lowest possible cost until a manufacturer 
is found willing to make them; then, of course, 
they will be very much cheaper. To those un¬ 
able to get fish on lures or plugs, the latter being 
an art very difficult to learn, and forced to 
buy live bait, or catch frogs themselves, my 
lures will prove a blessing. It is amazing what 
price some people will ask for live bait, esne- 
cially at popular resorts and hotels. When you do 
get the frogs, after a single slap on the water, 
the poor little beastie will refuse to move, swim 
or kick, and lying on its back, swells out like 
a balloon—and so would you and I, if sent 
swinging by our lips forty feet over the water. 
Setting aside the undoubted cruelty of impaling 
live bait on the hook as a lure, how much easiet 
it is to fish with a good lure that attracts the 
quarry, the only real logical solution of the 
problem. 
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Artificial Frogs That Wiggle Their Legs and Float. 
Can One Snap of a Wolf’s Jaws Kill a Deer? 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
As a mere yearly visitor in the woods, with but 
limited opportunity for close observation of what 
I find there, and depending, therefore, on the 
written works of the naturalist, naturalist-hunter, 
scientific investigator or other individual of rec¬ 
ognized authority, for information on wild bird 
and animal life, I logically am an interested 
reader of such articles as that of Mr. W. J. 
Long, in June number of Forest and Stream, in 
which he defends his original portrayal in 
“Northern Trails,” of the feat of the great, white 
son of Wayeeses, the wolf, in biting at one snap 
into the heart of a young bull caribou. 
The controvery over the possibility of accom¬ 
plishing this feat is not new; and those even 
superficially interested in natural history have 
taken one side or the other of it, some with much 
heat. To me, Mr. Long’s wild life stories are 
educational as well as interesting, and I believe 
Captured on One of the Lures Illustrated \bove. 
I have gained a somewhat more sympathetic view 
of animal and bird character in reading them, 
than I should otherwise have had. Being a lay¬ 
man, any possible exaggerations of the reasoning 
power of animals that may occur in his writings 
or in those of like nature by others, have not 
stirred my resentment. Indeed, my knowledge 
of the subjects of which he writes is so limited, 
that I doubt if I should recognize an exaggera¬ 
tion of that nature should it occur. At the 
same time, now that controversy has drawn at¬ 
tention to the incident referred to, considerable 
skepticism has arisen in my mind that the ana¬ 
tomical demonstrations of Mr. Long in the arti¬ 
cle. in your June number have not been suffi¬ 
cient to dissolve. 
Having dressed out many deer carcasses in 
the woods, and subsequently cut them up at camp 
or at my home, I have only the knowledge of 
deer anatomy to be gained from such experiences. 
However, moved by a natural uriosity to estab¬ 
lish the course of a fatal shot, I have fre¬ 
quently examined a carcass with great care, and 
sustained the surprise .and wonderment of others 
at the vitality exhibited by a deer after, for in¬ 
stance, the aorta had been almost severed close 
to the heart. That a caribou with a punctured 
heart may be able to move a considerable distance 
does not, therefore, appear to be a strained con¬ 
tention, though I doubt the probability of exter¬ 
nal hemorrhage so profuse as described by Mr. 
Long, from such a puncture as could be made by 
the canine tooth of a wolf. I have in mind a 
deer that traveled several rods after its heart had 
been pierced by a Winchester, 32 Special bullet; 
while indications of external hemorrhage were so 
scant on the trail, as to afford but a very doubt¬ 
ful indication of its course after being struck, 
or of the extent of the wound. 
But my incredulity in the matter rests almost 
wholly on what I conceive to be the peculiar 
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