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horses and buggies, workpeople threw down their 

 tools and hurried to the scene, mothers caught their 

 children in their arms and held them up to see the 

 sight. We went out again in the afternoon, when I 

 killed a lunge of about 6 lb., and that too had an 

 absolutely empty stomach. 



The captain of the steamer which brought me 

 home said that he once conveyed from the St. 

 Lawrence the head of a lunge that had kicked the 

 beam at 140 lb. I can easily imagine that with 

 proper boat, tackle, and baits a hundredweight would 

 be a very moderate bag for the angler who would 

 be content with the maskinonge, pike, or pickerel of 

 these lakes. 



On the general subject of the pike's foreign 

 relatives it may be added that there is a fish in 

 America called the wall-eyed pike, which is the pike- 

 perch known as the zander or zanda in Germany and 

 Austria, and by other names in Denmark, Sweden, 

 and Russia. It is a lake fish, much esteemed for 

 food in the markets of the eastern cities. 



