mouth the watch was wound half a 

 turn, and thus was kept running. 



Not being an eye-witness, my testi- 

 mony regarding this incident would not 

 be accepted in a court of law. However, 

 I have known pickerel to swallow frogs, 

 crawfish, mice, sunfish and yellow perch 

 with their prickly dorsal fins, young shell- 

 drakes and gulls, and even bull-heads 

 having three rigid horns with needle 

 points projecting at right angles to the 

 body, any one of which horns, it would 

 seem, might pierce the anatomy of the 

 pickerel. Somehow, they appear to get 

 away with all these things, and more. 



The pickerel has a large mouth and a 

 multitude of teeth on both upper and 

 lower jaws, in the roof of his mouth, 

 also on tongue and palate. These teeth 

 are long and sharp and they slope in- 

 ward; some of them also bend down to 

 allow objects to pass into the throat, 

 but they effectually prevent ejecting 



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