ON THE NATURE OF PIKE, &c. 79 



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 Me. Quints description of three hundred Animals. 



Remarks on the Nature, Haunts, 

 Habits, Shape, Colour, fyc. of the 

 Jack, Pike, Luce, or Water Wolfe. 

 Lucius a Pike, a Jack. 



Jack and Pike have a fiattish head, the under jaw is 

 something longer than the upper one, the mouth is ex- 

 tremely 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 mucus or slimy substance ; the back and 

 upper part of the sides are of a greenish golden hue, and 

 the belly of an indifferent white colour, the eyes are of 

 a bright yellow, and sunk low in the sockets, but are so 

 placed as to enable the Jack to look upwards (this should 

 teach the angler not to sink his bait too low in the water.) 



