206 THE ANGLER-NATURALIST. 



into the dried expanded jaws of the monster, intend- 

 ing, no doubt, to take up his abode there for the night. 

 In endeavouring to get out again he found himself lite- 

 rally hooked. Being a classical guinea-pig, he might have 

 construed 'facilis descensus Averni,' it is an easy thing 

 to get down a Jack's mouth ; ' sed revocare gradum/ &c., 

 but it is a precious hard job to get out again." 



The scratched prisoner was only at last rescued from 

 his Regulus-like incarceration by Mr. Buckland cutting a 

 passage for him through the fish's gills, and thus enabling 

 him to make his exit a tergo. 



To the sharpness of the teeth in the mouth of this par- 

 ticular Pike I can bear witness, having received unpleasant 

 proof of the fact when carelessly withdrawing my hand 

 from an examination of its contents. 



The engraving represents one side of the lower jaw-bones 

 of the Pike, and the position of the large canine teeth. 



In consequence of the inconvenience experienced in ex- 

 tracting hooks from the mouths of these fish with the ordi- 

 nary short disgorger, I recently caused a t disgorger-blade/ 

 if I may so term it made, of course, without edges of any 

 sort to be inserted in my fishing-knife, by which the length 



