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bullock's blood, dog's greaves, meal, and oil-cake, 

 worked up into a kind of pudding, and then rolled 

 into balls, is generally used. 



The biggest bream ever caught, says Frank 

 Buckland, was one near King's Lynn, weighing 

 I if lbs., and measuring 2 feet 6 inches from the 



nose to the fork of the tail,i and 10 inches 

 deep. 



Bream fight gallantly for freedom, but being 

 soft-mouthed, if well hooked they seldom get off. 



I think few of my London readers have ever 



■ The only correct way of measuring the length of a fish. 



