me incompieaz ^^dngier. 45 



All the Fishes go on strike 



At the death of Old King Pike. 



Also my friend, Mr. JVagstaff^ affirms Curious 

 that the gaiters ot two Polonia?t ^^'^^ ^^^^' 

 gentlemen, who disappeared about 

 the same time and place, were found 

 near a pond on a high road, where 

 formerly there used to be a well- 

 known pike, which had been known 

 to stop horses, cattle, carts, and 

 everything that came in its way. 

 The venerable Bishop Stortford relates Episcopal 

 how he used to catch these voracious 

 monsters, after dark, by fastening 

 himself to bladders and floating down 

 the stream with a reading-lamp fixed 

 to his girdle, and a spelling-book^^ in 



* ^he --jenerable ecclesiastic here mentioned would 

 have taken a Spelling-Be e in hand had he lived 

 when this peculiar kind of Bee was in vogue. 



his 



