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shore. Myself and my son were immediately sent for to 

 look at itj when the boy at once recognized his antagonist. 

 The fish appeared to have been a long time in the agonies 

 of death ; and the body was very lean, and curved like a 

 bow. It measured 41 inches, and died the next day, and, 

 I believe, was taken to the Castle at Windsor.' 



" There can be no doubt," Mr. Wright adds, " that this 

 fish was in a state of complete starvation .... If well-fed, 

 it is probable it might have weighed from 30 to 40 lbs." 



The same gentleman also mentions that he was himself 

 on one occasion a witness, with Lord Milsington and 

 many other persons, to a somewhat similar occurrence, 

 where, during the netting of the Bourne Brook, Chertsey, 

 one of the waders was bitten in the leg by a Pike which he 

 had attempted to kick to shore. This fish, which was after- 

 wards killed, weighed 17 lbs. 



I am indebted for the following to Dr. Genzik : — " In 

 1829 I was bathing in the Swimming-School at Vienna 

 with some fellow-students, when one of them — afterwards 

 Dr. Gouge, who died a celebrated physician some years 

 ago — suddenly screamed out and sank. We all plunged 

 in immediately to his rescue, and succeeded in bringing 

 him to the surface, and finally in getting him up on to the 

 hoarding of the bath, when a Pike was found sticking fast 

 to his right heel, which would not loose its hold, but was 

 killed, and eaten by us all in company the same evening. 

 It weighed 32 lbs. Gouge suffered for months from the 

 bite." 



