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6 inches in length. When taken into the house 

 it was stabbed with a knife, against which treatment 

 it most stoutly resisted, flinging itself about in its 

 agony and fright in a very desperate manner, the 

 blood spurting all over the place, converting it into 

 about the worst shambles I ever saw. Two men 

 were knocked over by its struggles, and a large 

 herring-rack was smashed into pieces. On being 

 opened, a foetal young one, 3 feet 6 inches long, 

 was found. Its head was somewhat blunter than 

 that of its parent. It weighed 4 stones, and was 

 almost fully matured. The estimated weight of 

 the old one was about 6 cwt. 



On 14th November of the same year a Lowestoft 

 drifter found entangled in its nets a Grampus 



7 feet 5 inches in length. It was dragged from 

 Lowestoft to Yarmouth by two quiet, well-behaved 

 fishermen, who did some fairly good business by 

 exhibiting it. Four days afterwards I purchased 

 a second example of this species, taken in a precisely 

 similar manner by a Yarmouth boat. It was 2 

 inches shorter, but as like to it as the proverbial 

 "two peas." 



Mr. Southwell, referring to these two examples, 

 in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich 



