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" With unsuspecting curiosity master guinea-pig had crept into the dried expanded jaws of the monster, intending, no doubt, to take up his abode there for the night. In endeavouring to get out again he found himself literally hooked. Being a classical guinea-pig,... "
The Book of the Pike: A Practical Treatise on the Various Methods of Jack ... - Page 36
by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - 1865 - 254 pages
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Curiosities of Natural History

Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1859 - 434 pages
...jaws of the monster, intending, no doubt, to take up his abode there for the night. In endeavoring to get out again he found himself literally hooked....get down a jack's mouth ; " Sed revocare gradum," etc., but it is a' deuced hard job to get out again. In vain did the poor creature cry and push with...
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The Angler-naturalist: A Popular History of British Fresh-water Fish, with a ...

Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - 1863 - 442 pages
...die of their injuries, but that they should ever succeed in escaping from the triple chevaux de /rise with which the jaws of the Pike are armed. An anecdote,...The scratched prisoner was only at last rescued from his Regulus-like incarceration by Mr. Buckland cutting a passage for him through the fish's gills,...
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Curiosities of Natural History

Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1865 - 398 pages
...little tame guinea-pig, which was a pet, and allowed to run with two companions about the room. With an unsuspecting curiosity Master Guinea-pig had crept...get down a jack's mouth ; ' Sed revocare gradum,' <fcc., but it is a deuced hard job to get out again. In vain did the poor creature cry and push with...
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Curiosities of Natural History

Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1883 - 400 pages
...little tame guinea-pig, which was a pet, and allowed to run with two companions about the room. With an unsuspecting curiosity Master Guinea-pig had crept...jack's mouth ; ' Sed revocare gradum,' &c., but it is a deuced hard job to get out again. In vain did the poor creature cry and push with all his might backwards...
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A popular history of British fresh-water fish, adapted to the use of schools ...

Harry Cholmondeley- Pennell - 1884 - 450 pages
...often die of their injuries, but that they should ever succeed in escaping from the triple chevaux de frise with which the jaws of the Pike are armed....The scratched prisoner was only at last rescued from his Begulus-like incarceration by Mr. Buckland cutting a passage for him through the fish's gills,...
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