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and pike. To use it, run the hook into the mouth right up 

 through the centre of the head, through the brains, east a 

 hundred times, catch several fish, and at the end of three 

 to six hours he will kick like a mule. 



'Put a hundred in a rain-barrel, and you can keep them 

 all summer without change of water. For the aquarium, 

 the young have no equal, and on account of the spot in the 

 tail they are quite attractive; but nothing else than snails 

 can live in the tank. He will kill a lizard or any other living 

 thing the instant it touches the water." 



