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Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sequently it does littleelse but endeavor to satisfy its hunger. A trick of the grampus is to swim along at a great rate with its mouthwide open. In this way a large number of fish of all sizes, from sardines tocod, find their way into its stomach. Even the swift swimming porpoisefalls a victim to the grampus. There is no doubt that when a grampus isreally in a hurry it can move along about as quickly as an express train. The only amusement a grampus seems to indulge in is to tease theGreenland whale. Five or six will join in the fun. They will surround thewhale, spring out of the water and dealing it terrific blows with their tails.They do not often kill a whale, but simply worry and hustle it from placeto place. The whale does not fight back, but swims off as fast as it can. Sometimes the grampusses will follow a whale hundreds of miles untilit is all but worn out. The color of the grampus is blue-black, while itsbelly is a shining white. Its head is small in proportion to its body.
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SEA LIONS FIGHTING. HUNTING SEA LIONS Out on the Pacific coast of the United States is the best place to observethe Sea Lion. There are still a few to be found on the rocks off the CliffHouse near San Franciso, and on the northern end of the island of Catalina,but the hunter must go farther to the South to see great herds in a wild state. There is a lonely island called St Nicholas off Southern Califorina and itis truly one of the jumping off places of the United States. This islandis about nine miles long. It is almost without water or vegetation, in fact,nothing but sun and sand and rocks and sea; a more wild desolate spot canhardly be imagined. Here it is that bird and animal life is to be found inabundance, for the hand of man has not touched the spot. Gulls, sea eaglesand ducks fly about in great flocks, but they are not as interesting as themighty herds of sea lions. Two hunters went out to the island in a sloop; a sail of some hundredor more miles, and arrived during the night

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