People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — Thing’s That Fish Swallow. [ARTICLE]

Thing’s That Fish Swallow.

Not long ago a fish merchant found the amber mouthpiece and a portion the meerschaum stem of a pipe in a codfish he was dressing fora customer. At Scarborough the writer saw a child’s coral which, not half an hour before, had been, on the most undeniable authority, taken from the gullet of » good-sized conger. That bright objects attract the attention of fishes is undeniable, and at one of the great London clubs a silver spoon was found in a fine salmon. The spoon had upon it the crest of a well-known nobleman, and inquiry showed that the latter had been cruising about in his yacht in the very district in which it had been caught. The voracity of the pike is notorious, but a year or two back in a loch of the canal at Caton, near Lancaster, England, a huge pike was caught which had swallowed an assortment of hardware, including some pieces of tiny toys, a spinning ball and hooks attached complete, an old-fashioned two-penny piece and the head and part of the handle of a tack hammer.—Waverley Magazine.