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and tail projecting from its mouth. March 

 26th, 1894, a pike n in. long wired in a hatch 

 hole, had three lamperns, two bullheads, and 

 two yearling trout in its stomach. October 

 3rd, 1894, a pike 2-^lb. taken in net, with tail 

 of a trout quite fib. in its mouth. This trout 

 was scarcely dead when taken from the pike's 

 jaws. 



Take these four examples, multiply them by 

 the thousands of pike in a neglected trout 

 stream, consider the rapid rate at which they 

 increase, and no further argument can be 

 needed to demonstrate the paramount necessity 

 of declaring war to the knife against Esox 

 lucius. 



