Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1914 — The Fish’s Story. [ARTICLE]

The Fish’s Story.

Robert W. Chambers recently told this fish story: "A mother fish was swimming with three or four thousand of her offspring when one of them swallowed a big, juicy worm and—whisk—shot up and disappeared. The other little fishes had often wit* nessed this phenomenon. Now one of them said: "‘ls it unhealthy to get caught, mammar _ .r “ ‘Oh, no, my dear—far from It,’ the mother fish cynically replied. ‘AU our tribe Increase 80 or SIX per cent in weight on being landed.’ ” > ‘