chap, viii.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



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take them all into her mouth, and swim away from 

 any apprehended danger, and then let them out 

 again when she thinks all danger to he past : these 

 be accidents that we Anglers sometimes see, and 

 often talk of. 



But whither am I going ? I had almost lost my- 

 self bv remembering the discourse of Dubravius. I 

 will therefore stop here, and tell you according to 

 my promise how to catch this Pike. 



His feeding is usually of fish or frogs, and some- 

 times a weed of his own called Pickerel-weed. Of 

 which I told you some think some Pikes are bred ; 

 for they have observed, that where none have been 

 put into ponds, yet they have there found many : 

 and that there has been plenty of that weed in those 

 ponds, and that that weed both breeds and feeds 

 them ; but whether those Pikes so bred will ever 

 breed by generation as the others do, I shall leave 

 to the disquisitions of men of more curiosity and 

 leisure than I profess myself to have : and shall 



