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lucius unfortunately possesses an inordinate love for 

 young trout, which trait has accentuated its disrepute. 

 Nor does the evidence against the pike acquit it of 

 the slaughter of the young trout's bigger brother, for 

 numerous instances might be cited in which pike 

 have successfully disposed of trout from one to 

 many pounds in weight. Now and then we hear of 

 the tables being turned, and some old cannibal 

 trout carrying the war into the enemy's country and 

 swallowing a small pike. 



It is difficult to gauge the extent of the excesses 

 which may be committed in the pike's private life, 

 as it is not a fish which is given to feeding much in 

 public. But when the contents of the pike's stomach 

 reveal time after time the presence of trout in process 

 of digestion, there can exist no doubt about its 

 predilection for Salmonidae. The grayling, however, 

 does not, for some occult reason, appear to be a special 

 favourite with the pike. Out of large numbers of 

 pike which were netted from a celebrated trout and 

 grayling water in the south of England no sign of a 

 grayling's remains could be found in their stomachs, 

 although a quantity of young trout were present in 

 various stages of digestion. 



In his ' Making a Fishery,' Mr. Halford gives 

 the autopsical results which were obtained from 



