 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1805 - 622 pages
...a Pike seized the head of a swan as she was feeding under water, and gorged so much of it as killed them both*. " I have been assured (says Walton) by...known a Pike, in extreme hunger, fight with one of his ottfrs for a carp that the otter had caught, and was then bringing out of the water." Boulker, in his... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1820 - 188 pages
...Pike seized the head of a swan as she was feeding under water, and gorged so much of i(, as killed them both. " I have been assured (says Walton) by...my friend Mr. Seagrave, who keeps tame otters, that hfr has known a. Pike, in extreme hunger, fight with one of his otters for a carp that the otter had... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 518 pages
...assured by my friend Mr. Seagrave, of whom I spake to you formerly, that keeps tame Otters, that he hath known a Pike in extreme hunger, fight with one of...had caught, and was then bringing out of the water. I have told you who relate these things, and tell you they are persons of credit, and shall conclude... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - Natural history - 1825 - 278 pages
...the young ducks as they are swimming about, and even attack the legs of persons who are bathing. " I have been assured (says Walton) by my friend Mr....tame otters, that he has known a Pike, in extreme hanger, fight with one of his otters for a carp that the otter had caught, and was then bringing out... | |
 | James Rennie - Bait fishing - 1833 - 164 pages
...drinking, and was in consequence dragged out of the water ; and Walton says, " I have been assured by my friend Mr. Seagrave, who keeps tame otters,...had caught, and was then bringing out of the water. In December, 1765, a pike was caught in the river Ouse, which weighed about twenty-eight pounds, and... | |
 | William Yarrell - Fishes Great Britain - 1836 - 454 pages
...itself. Walton was assured by his friend Mr. Segrave, who kept tame otters, VOL. i. 2 c that he had known a Pike, in extreme hunger, fight with one of...had caught, and was then bringing out of the water ; and, with the old adage, adds, " it is a hard thing to persuade the belly, because it has no ears.'"... | |
 | William Yarrell - Fishes - 1841 - 524 pages
...could disengage itself. Walton was assured by his friend Mr. Segrave, who kept tame otters, that he had known a Pike, in extreme hunger, fight with one of...had caught, and was then bringing out of the water; and, with the old adage, adds, " it is a hard thing to persuade the belly, because it has no ears.... | |
 | Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...the young ducks as they are swimming about, and even attack the legs of persons who are bathing. " I have been assured (says Walton) by my friend Mr....had caught, and was then bringing out of the water." THE BEAUTIES OF THE SEASONS. SPRING awakes the sleeping flowers, Strews her blossoms o'er the bowers,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1842 - 532 pages
...assured by my friend Mr. Seagrave, of whom I spake to you formerly, that keeps tame Otters, that he hath known a Pike, in extreme hunger, fight with one of...had caught, and was then bringing out of the water. I have told you who relate these things, and tell you they are persons of credit ; and shall conclude... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...from Coventry. But I have been assured by my friend Mr. Seagravc, that keeps tame otters, that he halh known a pike, in extreme hunger, fight with one of...otters for a carp that the otter had caught, and was bringing it out of the water." A curious instance of the extreme voracity of the pike is told us by... | |
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I spake to you formerly, that keeps tame Otters, that he hath known a Pike in extreme hunger, fight with one of his Otters for a Carp that the Otter had caught, and was then bringing out of the water. 
