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mer approaching, we then consider him more 

 circumspect, more cunning, more cautious, and 

 under better guards ; for then in a deep you 

 may search him, and probably find him ; but 

 then you must have it at the tail of a ford : 

 when in autumn you shall find him lap himself 

 in can docks, at other times in bullrushes ; and 

 wherever the fry is, there is he, if not in the midst, 

 yet he's never far from them. I have known this 

 fish deluded with a trout ; a trout did I say ? 

 there's no fish that swims in the freshes is such 

 an alluring temptation ; nor can the pike any 

 more resist this charm, than he can resist his 

 natural disposition after diet. The consequence 

 proves true upon the angler's examination ; for 

 the pike has strong inclinations after any thing 

 that swims ; who as seldom as any fish wants an 

 appetite, and by his good will would always be 

 eating. 



After this manner we discourse the pike ; who 

 dwells almost every where, except in the ocean, 

 or in the brackish waters ; but in the lough, 

 you shall find him there o're-grown, sometimes 

 to an amazing bigness ; when in the river, and 

 translucid streams in rivulets, his taste is from 

 thence transchanged to a more excellent sweet- 

 ness, and upon proof will be found much more 

 nutricious. But his way of germinating is the 

 same with the salmon, to answer the ends of 



