Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — A Fish-and-Lizard Story. [ARTICLE]

A Fish-and-Lizard Story.

One afternoon I thought I would go down the river and troll. I had on my hook a live minnow, and in little while had a strike and I hooked my first fish, which seemed to be quite a large one. I reeled him where I could see him and found it was a large pike* twenty-five or thirty inches long. I pulled him up to my boat, but when I lifted h m irom the water he was as light as a feather. I measured him and found he was just thirty inches long, and should have weighed eight or nine pounds, while be only weighed two. He was just skin and bones. I killed him, took my knife and cut him open, and found a live lizard, five Inches long, in his stomach. The reptile was as black as coal and very lively, living twenty-four hours after I took him from his prison.— Field and Stream.