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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: After hearing this touching tale, I was glad that no great intimacy
had sprung up between Favonius and the chickens which we carried in
a coop on the forecastle head, for there is no telling what
restrictions his tender-heartedness might have laid upon our
larder. But perhaps a chicken would not have given such an opening
for misplaced affection as a sheep. There is a great difference in
animals in this respect. I certainly never heard of any one
falling in love with a salmon in such a way as to regard it as a
fond companion. And this may be one reason why no sensible person
who has tried fishing has ever been able to see any cruelty in it.
Suppose the fish is not caught by an angler, what is his
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