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It sometimes occurs that the fishermen take a 

 perch with a stickleback in his mouth, which they 

 take out, and place the perch again in the water ; 

 but the wound in his mouth is so great that it 

 cannot be shut, and he becomes a prey to ducks 

 and large fish. Dr. Block. 



Girl killed by swallowing a Perch. AtWee- 

 don-bec a young man and maid were playing with 

 a perch, the lad threatened to make the girl swal- 

 low it, on which she opened her mouth unthink- 

 ingly, and the fish springing out of the lad's hand, 

 suddenly stuck in her throat, which killed her on 

 the spot. Gent. Mag. vol. 1. 



As a barge heavily laden was passing up the 

 Thames and Severn Canal, at Lodgmore, near 

 Stroud, a small perch pursued by a pike, actu- 

 ally jumped from the water on board, and was 

 immediately followed by the pike, when both 

 were secured by a boy who was steering the ves- 

 sel, the pike weighed between two and three 

 pounds. Gloucester Chronicle, 1833. 



In the Yas and Murrumbridgie rivers native 

 perch are caught, from the weight of seventy to 

 one hundred and twenty pounds, the breadth is 

 great in proportion to the length of the fish. 



Bennett's Wanderings in New South Wales. 



