A TWENTY inch pickerel of my 

 *** acquaintance, one day swallowed 

 his grandson. This was an exhibition 

 of bad judgment on the part of Grandad 

 Pickerel. The mere fact of killing his 

 near relative was not in itself repre- 

 hensible, since, if all pickerel were not 

 cannibals they would soon exterminate 

 from streams, ponds, and lakes, fishes 

 of all other species. But this particular 

 "pick" was a husky youngster, and while 

 he might very properly have been bit- 

 ten in half, or have been chewed up 

 into small pieces, the older fish got him- 

 self into trouble when he swallowed the 

 kid whole. 



A few hours after the occurence men- 

 tioned above, the elder pickerel, at one 

 end of a trolling line, climbed into our 

 boat; Bige, who had the other end of 

 the line, assisting him aboard. 



"Sufferin' Mackerel! Well by Gosh!! 

 He's got a rudder on both ends ; he can 



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