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HABITS OF THE BREAM. 



early and late of mornings and evenings, but they 

 bite freely and all day long during the fall of 

 mild rain in warm weather. The tench is said to 

 be an aquatic apothecary, a leech that cures 

 with his slime the wounds of other fish. The 

 pike in consequence respects this submarine 

 Machaon. Gratitude therefore is the pike's one 

 virtue linked with a thousand crimes. 



THE BREAM. Cyprinus Brama. 



This broad olivaceous carp grows to a very 

 large size in such rivers as the Ouse and the 

 Oundle. Bream are an exceedingly coarse fish, 

 but they bite freely in warm, gloomy, windy 

 weather, and a warm, drizzling rain sharpens their 

 appetites. A small red worm is the best bait for 



