Fishing and shooting sketches . II I i-t^^MvJ^^-^; \> f Aft^S*^P -V«T .Iff. H^.S VATStfM A Defense of Fishermen ment, or by way of curious specula-tion, it may be interesting to intimatehow a variation of a few inches in theexact length or a few ounces in the ex-act weight of a lost fish, as given bythe loser, may be accounted for, with-out meanly attributing to him inten-tional falsehood. The theory has beenrecently started, that a trained huntingdog points a bird in the field solelybecause the birds scent creates a hyp-notic influence on the dog, which im-pels him by a sort of suggestion
Fishing and shooting sketches . II I i-t^^MvJ^^-^; \> f Aft^S*^P -V«T .Iff. H^.S VATStfM A Defense of Fishermen ment, or by way of curious specula-tion, it may be interesting to intimatehow a variation of a few inches in theexact length or a few ounces in the ex-act weight of a lost fish, as given bythe loser, may be accounted for, with-out meanly attributing to him inten-tional falsehood. The theory has beenrecently started, that a trained huntingdog points a bird in the field solelybecause the birds scent creates a hyp-notic influence on the dog, which im-pels him by a sort of suggestion todirect his nose toward the spot fromv/hich such scent emanates. If thereis anything worth considering in thistheory, why may not a struggling fishat the end of a line exert such a hyp-notic influence on the intensely excitedand receptive nature at the other ex-30 A Defense of Fishermen trcniity of the lishing outfit, as to sug-gest an arbitrary and independentstatement of the dimensions of thehypnotizer? With the accusations already men-tioned it would certainly seem that
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