This Fish Chews Gum

Connecticut, 1914

Winsted, Ct., Jan. 2. — Pete, a tame trout in Highland lake, has acquired a taste for sweets and also chews gum.

The fish, following a New Year's dinner of bits of roasted turkey and liver, was given molasses candy, which he chewed until it melted in his mouth. When the gum was dropped into the deep walled spring where Pete lives the year round he quickly took it and began chewing.

Half an hour later he still was chewing the gum while leisurely swimming about in a circle. The trout weighs a pound and a half and will respond to its name and eat from its owner's fingers.