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He borrowed an old saw 

 From a lock-man that he knew, 

 He worked till he blistered both his hands, 

 But he cut their poles in two. 

 Not long, &c. 



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He fill'd them full of hooks, 

 Then drove them in a hole, 

 And may this ever be the fate 

 Of every plunging pole. 

 Then success to Peter Pike, 

 And his friend, Tommy Trout. 

 And may every poaching rascal get, 

 As these were, well served out. 

 Not long, &c. 



The Pike is called the tyrant of the fresh water, 

 and, except Carp, is the longest lived of all fishes ; he 

 seizes indescriminately every moving thing in the 

 water, and they will frequently take their own species, 

 young geese, ducks, &c. and I have known an instance 

 in Staffordshire, of one hanging to the foot of a youth 

 when bathing, till he was taken, and Mr. Cox Brooks, 

 an experienced Trolier, and a well known Angler of 

 the Lea, once was witness to a Jack taking a lark ; 

 some men were practising what is called daring for 

 larks, with an artificial hawk, near Cobmead, by 

 Waltham Abbey, and the lark was so frightened that 





