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Use it in a strong warm wind, upon water from 

 six to two feet deep, and near the weeds. 



Stoddart's Scottish Angler. 



Stones found in the stomachs of Pike. The 

 Rev. W. T. Bree, of Ullesley Rectory, mentions 

 having, in the year 1830, found in a pike of three 

 and a half pounds weight, a stone which weighed 

 four ounces three quarters : he also saw in one, a 

 pebble, much larger, at Packington hall, the seat 

 of the Earl of Aylesford ; and had conversed with 

 a fisherman on the subject, who had seen many, 

 one as large as his fist, which he had kept several 

 years ; there can be little doubt these stones en- 

 tered the fish through the mouth, either swallowed 

 as they were falling into the water, or in seizing 

 his prey. Maj. Nat. Hist. Vol. in. No. 17. 



Blind Pike. The Marq. de Montalbert often 

 fished for pike in the Fountain of Gabard, in A ngou- 

 mois, and always found them blind, or if not quite 

 so, the one eye blind, and the other diseased. This 

 fountain is a species of gulf, of which the bottom 

 has never been found ; no nets can be used here. 

 This fountain also discharges itself in Lissonia, in 

 which no fish are ever found blind. 



Hist, de L' Academic des Sciences, 1748, 



