pike

We’ll know before the day is out whether we have caught our big, lean-jawed pike, or whether he has got through the meshes.”

Already I seemed to see our nets drawing closer around that lean-jawed pike.

The pike, eels, and carp eat greedily always, as everybody knows—well, they feast on the vulture.

Now suppose that next day, one of these eels, or pike, or carp, poisoned at the fourth remove, is served up at your table.