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already described, by putting two or three strong 

 hooks at the bottom of your line, and letting them 

 sink under the Fish j then strike smartly, and you will 

 generally be successful. 



Remarks on the Nature, Haunts, Habits, Shape, Colour, 

 8ic. of Jack and Pike. 



Beware, ye flirting Gudgeons, Roaches fair, 

 And all who breathe the lucid crystal of the lakes. 

 Or lively sport, between the dashing wheels 

 Of river mills ; — beware ; the Tyrant comes ; 

 Grim death awaits you in his gaping jaws. 

 And lurks behind his hungry fangs. 



See M'Quin's Descriptions of three hundred Animals. 



Jack and Pike have a flattish head 3 the under jaw 

 is something longer than the upper one 5 the mouth is 

 extremely wide, the tongue very large, and studded 

 with teeth, the lower jaw is set round with large 

 crooked canine teeth ; the expanse of mouth, jaws, 

 and teeth, enables this merciless Fish to hold fast, and 

 quickly destroy the victim that is so unfortunate as 

 to come within its reach. The body of a Jack is 

 long, and cased in very small hard scales, and, when 

 they are in season, it is covered with a mucous or slimy 

 Isubstance ; the back and upper part of the sides are 

 of a greenish golden hue, and the belly of an indiffer- 

 ent white colour 3 the eyes are of a bright yellow, and 

 sunk low in the sockets, but are so placed as to ena- 

 ble the Jack to look upwards, which should teach the 

 Angler not to sink his bait too low in the water. 



