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wearing his spurs. Another, having caught a gudgeon, 

 stuck it on one of the spurs, which he (the deUnquent 

 in the bow) not perceiving, in a few minutes a large 

 jack bit at the gudgeon, and the spur being crane-necked, 

 entangled in the gills of the jack, which, in attempting 

 to extricate himself, actually pulled the unfortunate 

 person out of the boat. He was with difficulty dragged 

 on shore, and the fish taken, which was of prodigious 

 size^ 



Now, after this cautionary notice of ours, we do 

 assert that any gentleman who goes to fish in crane- 

 necks, and disposes of his legs overboard, with a gudgeon 

 on the rowel, is not exactly the person on whose life, 

 were we agent to a company, we should feel justified 

 in effecting a policy of insurance. 



