188 THE LONG ISLAND PICKEREL. 



and the young fry do not live where he resorts. It is 

 not from want of will but of power that he is harmless, 

 for he will take a small fly with the same ravenous eager- 

 ness that the mascallonge exhibits in seizing the deadly 

 spoon. He is fat and free from bones, and not a bad 

 pan fish, and in these particulars, as well as in habits 

 and appearance, he sets his big ' brothers a good 

 example. 



