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As Mr. Leigh's gamekeepers were dragging a 

 part of the river Avon, under Berscott Wood, they 

 caught a pike, which, after laying on the bank, 

 wanted to disgorge something ; it was immedi- 

 ately opened, and another fish taken out of its 

 belly, of two feet two inches, weighing four pounds 

 and a half; the weight of the pike was sixteen 

 pounds. 



Near Youghall, a yearling calf drinking in the 

 river Blackwater, was seized by a pike, which 

 was drawn out of the water before quitting hold ; 

 it weighed thirty-five pounds. Ireland is remark- 

 able for abundance of pike ; in the Shannon and 

 Lough Corrib they have been found seventy 

 pounds weight. 



Daniel's Rural Sports. 



A girl fourteen years of age went to a pool of 

 water belonging to S. P. Wolferstan, esq. at 

 Stratford, in Staffordshire, to wash herself; whilst 

 so doing a large pike seized one of her hands, by 

 which it was instantaneously hauled ashore, and 

 secured with difficulty, the hand was much la- 

 cerated. The fish was two feet ten inches long. 



June, 1822. 



On emptying a pool which had not been fished 

 for ages at Lillishall Lime Works, near Newport, 

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