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over the unsuspecting fish, and raising his arm, Boh dashed the point of the quant through its skull, and after 
a few flaps our prize was secured, and proved, Avhen Aveighed, to he just over IG lbs. After taking the pike up 
to the farmhouse at Avhich we were staying, it was placed in a large dish and conveyed into the larder. 
During our absence in the afternoon the farmer’s wife made an examination of the fish, and on returnin 
she informed us that it had been feeding on white herrings *. This Avas a strange assertion, and proceedin 
at once to ascertain the true state of the case, it was obvious at a glance. The pike had evidently snapped 
up three rud f for his last repast, and decomposition having already set in, and the red off the fins and the 
scales with tlieir green and orange tinge having disappeared, the fish had assumed the pale blue and Avhite hue 
which is ahvays exhibited by a fresh-caught herring. 
* Fresh-cauglit herrings are known by this name in the country districts of the east of Norfolk. 
t This fish is always spoken of as the “ roud ” in the Broad district by the natives. 
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