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(Btiliter A Tribune Syndicate, 1912)
Evtr Bait Your Hoolt
With a Hellgramita?
In a way it was exciting to
catch them. We hunted up a
place along the creek where
the water was shallow and
wift. Wading in we bent
nearly double and began lift
ing up stones from the creek
bottom. Under about every
fourth stone we would find
a hellgramite. Avoiding the
strong, forcep-like pliers the
creature carried on its nose,
we would grab him and pop
him into the bait box.
Eight or 10 hcllgramitcs
would usually assure us of
four or five black bass later
when we arrived at the lake.
Sometimes we could catch
three or four bluegills with a
ainizle hellgramite. The fish
of whatever kind, always
seemed to prefer these funny
looking things over worms,
crickets or even small min
nows.
Good For Fishing
The hellgramite has a tough
skin and a hard collar just
back of the head that holds a
fish hook securely. The plao
ing of the hook didn't seem to
hurt the hellgramite, but it
did make him very angry.
Small fish had trouble tearing
the bait off the hook; a de
cided advantage to the fisher
man. Boy-like, we seldom ques
tioned the reason for this pe
culiar creature that hides
under rocks at the creek bot
tom. We didn't know or care
at the time that this creature,
which looks something like a
thousand-legged worm, is real
ly the larva form of the dob
son fly.
Neither did we associate
the irregular white clusters of
eggs, deposited on branches
and weeds overhanging the
water, with the hellgramites.
We never suspected these to
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EXPRESSES DISMAY - "Clancy," a Bas- the thought of
sett hound, expresses the dismay he fuels at
be the eggs. We had never
watched, as the eggs hatched,
to see the newly born crea
tures drop into the water to
begin their three years of
aquatic life as hellgramites.
Throe years, unless some boy
caught them for fish bait.
Pursues Other Life
Looking down into the
clear water of the creek we
had often seen one leave its
rock and scamper along the
creek bottom after other
forms of aquatic insect life on
which it feeds.
It would grab the victim in
Its forcep-like mouth and eat
it while holding onto a plant
stem with the two small hooks
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attached to the rear end of
its body.
Sometimes one would grab
onto a support with its tail
hooks and wait for the cur
rent to float a bug within
reach.
Occasionally, we caught
one that was all of three or
more inches in length. Later
still, we learned identity of
the hellgramite, and that,
after three years, the creature
crawls out of the water and
up on the bank.
There it rests awhile and
later becomes a moth like
creature called the dobsonfly.
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meet has a different name for
what we call the hellgramite.
Rather peculiar, that now
we have learned a little about
it, we realize how very little
actually is known about its
life history. Even its name,
hellgramite, fails to tell any
thing about it. So, better we
leave it there - under the
rock.
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The Family Council
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phychtatri.l, three clergymen, three editors end a women's editor.
Keen arUcle la a summary of a family disagreement preiented to the
Council. The council dealt with problems, major and minor,
encountered by cuidanee counselors and social workers, edited by
by Mrs. Alma Denny. ICopyright by General Features Corp.)
Louis G. - We want to see
them, not their children.
Ralph C. - Our family is a
unit. Where one goes, all go.
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Louis G. - Ralph and I are
lifelong friends. We went to
school together and even serv
ed in Korea in the same in
fantry battalion. Although he
married first, I was always
welcome at his home and I'd
bring along my girl friends on
dates where wi made it a
foursome. He was best man at
my wedding a few months af
ter his own.
Now, after ten years, we're
out of touch. Why? Not be
cause we don't see each other,
but because we can't see them
without their three children.
Since my wife and I are child
less, we come a adults and
pals. Ralph and May are eter
nally Momsy anl Popsy, busy
with lollipops and kiddy
squabbles. I'm sure if they
tried they could manage an
eye-to-eye date with us, like in
the old days.
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Ralph C. - Not having chil
dren of his own, Lou thinks
he and I should be able to con
tinue at the same old stand in
the same relationship we had
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as kids.
If he and Lois were
themselves they'd
parents
realize
things.
how chil " rn change
To us they corm first. We're
not going to up and desert
them every time Lou feels
like having some fun wtih us.
Those kids are just part of us
now and where we go, they
go. Anyone who want to see
us, sees them, too. They're po
lite and beautiful children. In
fact they're better company
than a great many adults we
know who Just sit around and
complain.
I certainly prize Lou's
friendship. But he can't ex
pect me to lock up my family
when we meet. Whatever we
say can be sai in front of
them, too.
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The Council: One of the
age-old tests of true love, as
phrased by John Heywood -a
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matist - was, "Love me love
my dog." More explicitly the
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that comes with him - his
problems as veil as his
charms. That's the deal Ralph
is invoking, a package deal.
"Want to keep on being my
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friend?" is his ulima'um to
Louis, "Then you'll have to
ge,t used to seeing me sur
rounded by my wife and chil
ren constantly !rom now on."
Our sympathies are with
Louis. We've all met adults
who use children and grand
children as a sort of shield
around themselves. You can't
get to first base with these
friends becaus of all the in
terference which, incidental
ly, they encourage. You won
der whether they're afraid to
free other adults and "serve
up" the kids as red herring,
as distraction lest the conver
sation gets around to them
selves. They'd rather not talk
s h o u 1 der-to-shoulder. The
children make swell decoys.
This ruse seems unfair to
childless couple like Louis
and his wife. It's certainly
hard on unmarried friends,
too, and on alert bright cou
ples who may be parents
themselves but who realize
the world is filled with a num
ber of other interesting topics.
Let's lay it on the line,
Ralph. When you talk of your
children you're talking of
yourself and that can become
boring, especially to people
without children who'd like a
chance to talk -bout them
selves a little. They can only
purr over your darlings for
a limited time. Also, dragging
the youngsters around to
adult gatherings isn't good for
anybody. Either beg off and
stay home, or look into the
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noble institution of baby-sitting.
To Louis we'd suggest this:
If Ralph continues to use his
offspring as "bodyguard'' to
keep you at your distance, re
gard it as a iorrr. of brush
off. He may regret this fore
shortening of his social con
tacts. But it's obviously his
own choice. He cou'd manage
to meet you on an adult level
if he wanted to. That would
be much harder for him, per
haps. (Copyright 1962, General
Features Corp.)
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