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THE CARP, PIKE, AND EEL. 
when they hear a bell rung to call them up to have 
some food. The Pike is a fish that will eat any 
kind of food that it can get at (I do not mean that 
it will eat a weed), and if it is put into a pond with 
a good many more fish that are less than it is, it 
will soon eat them all up, and it will not care if 
they are of its own kind or not. It is not tame, 
but it is very bold, and will dash at the bait, and 
not seem to mind a hook. Both the Carp and the 
Pike will grow to be a good size : they will not live 
in the sea. 
Last week Ned went down to the pool just as it 
grew dusk, and put a line into it at the very edge, 
and made it fast to the side : he did this in more 
than one part of the pool, and when he had put in 
five or six, he left them. Next day he went down 
to the pool to see them, and pull them up. One 
line had an Eel on it. The Eel is long and thin 
like a worm, but it has fins, and can swim, — or 
wave its body up and down in the pool. Eels like 
mud, and lie in it a good deal. They are good to 
eat, and one kind will grow to be a yard or two 
long. 
