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hardy, and may now and then be observed, on a very fine 

 day, as early as the month of March. Their counter- 

 feit, of different tints, may be had, most beautifully 

 made, of many of the London tackle-makers. 



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Linchards, i. e., precipitous slips of land on the hill 

 side, left untouched by the plough. Anglo-Saxon, 

 Hlinc, a bank or mound, and Scearit), a piece or portion. 

 The word Hlinc occurs repeatedly in A. S. Charters, 

 in which the boundaries of the grant are set out ; thus : 

 Jjonon uji ojrefi beori hlinc. of am hlince to ]>a' beorv^e 

 Co JEljrrieber lanbrcajxe : i.e., thence up over the deer- 

 linch ; from the linch to the hill at Alfred's share of 

 land, &c. 



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The Pike. " Dr. Warwick, a visitor, detailed some 

 remarkable instances of instinct, or of intelligence, in 

 animals, which had come under his personal obser- 

 vation. 



" When he resided at Dunham, the seat of the Earl of 

 Stamford and Warrington, he was walking one evening 

 in the park, and came to a pond, where fish intended 

 for the table were temporarily kept. He took particular 

 notice of a fine pike, of about six pounds weight, which, 

 when it observed him, darted hastily away. In so 

 doing, it struck its head against a tenterhook in a post 

 (of which there were several in the pond, placed to 



