. Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks . innows and other false bait whichhave been made by experts. And who are these experts? They aremen who have spent years trying to find out the best way to fool thefish into believing they see their prospective dinner, when in realitythey are going to their death. One kind of bait is the artificial min-now. The manufacturer makes a wooden minnow, shaped like the realminnow, whose picture I have drawn; then he paints it in the colorsof the live minnow, and sometimes he puts on some bright meta
. Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks . innows and other false bait whichhave been made by experts. And who are these experts? They aremen who have spent years trying to find out the best way to fool thefish into believing they see their prospective dinner, when in realitythey are going to their death. One kind of bait is the artificial min-now. The manufacturer makes a wooden minnow, shaped like the realminnow, whose picture I have drawn; then he paints it in the colorsof the live minnow, and sometimes he puts on some bright metal whichwhirls in the water and attracts the attention of the fish. If the de-ception were to stop there, very little harm would be done, but to allthis the manufacturer adds a lot of ugly hooks, sometimes as many X30 jr/^^dto 1 1 1 1 1 t 1 1 1 1 1 1 I t t , I 1 1 1 ,1111 t 11 1 1 • 1 I 1 i 1 1 1 t 1 1 1 ; • 1 ^ ) , • j [1 , 1 1 lo^ ^^^ijfcw^ :|i^:: . 1 > 1 1 1 1 1 li ; 1 1 11,1, n,...._ii 1,. Ill „ ,•■ :.. 131 as fifteen. [It is well to draw the lines suggested as the talk proceeds,and finish by drawing the hooks at this point, completing Fig. 81.]When this attractive artificial minnow is made to glide through thewater, the fish, seeing nothing of the hooks or else knowing nothingof their harmfulness, opens his mouth wide and tries to swallow thebait. Immediately, the ugly hooks catch him, and unless he can tearloose he is doomed. He is deceived. He finds out his mistake whenit is too late. Sometimes, the fisherman uses a spoon hook or other bait inwhich the hooks are hidden beneath some bright-colored feathers orother material which looks tempting to the fish. The intended victimdashes after the alluring bait, seeing nothing but the glitter of thebright metal or the brilliancy of the colors. He loses his life as a re-sult. It seems strange—doesnt it—that fish can be fooled in this way?And yet, I am not sure but that people are just as foolish th
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