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water-wolf, by reafon of his bold, 

 greedy,devouring difpofition; which 

 is fo keen, as Gejher relates, a man 

 going to a Pond (where it feems a 

 Pike had devoured all the fifh) to 

 water his Mule, had a Pike bit his 

 Mule by the lips, to which the Pike 

 hung fo faft, that the Mule drew him 

 out of the water, and by that acci- 

 dent the owner of the Mule got the 

 Pike ; I tell you who relates it,and 

 fhall with it tel you what a wife man 

 has obferved, It is a hard thing to 

 perfwade the belly, becaufe it hath no 

 ears. 



But if this relation of Gefners bee 

 dif-believed, it is too evident to bee 

 doubted that a Pike will devoure a 

 fifh of his own kind, that fhall be 

 bigger then this belly or throat will 

 receive; and fwallow a part of him, 

 and let the other part remaine in his 

 mouth till the fwallowed part be di- 

 gefted, and then fwallow that other 

 part that was in his mouth, and fo 



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