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Title: Grim: The Story of a Pike

Author: Svend Fleuron

Illustrator: Dorothy Pulis Lathrop

Translator: J. Alexander

Jessie Muir

Release date: October 2, 2012 [eBook #40921]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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“A wild chase was going on in the depths, and where it passed the rushes bowed their sheaves.”

“A wild chase was going on in the depths, and where it passed the rushes bowed their sheaves.”


GRIM: THE STORY OF A PIKE

Translated from the Danish of

Svend Fleuron

by J. Muir and J. Alexander

Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop

New York MCMXXI

Alfred A. Knopf


COPYRIGHT, 1919

By SVEND FLEURON

COPYRIGHT, 1921

By ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.

Original Title: Grim

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


To devour others and to avoid being devoured oneself,

that is life’s end and aim.


CONTENTS

I: LIFE

II: IN THE SHELTER OF THE CREEK

III: GRIM GOES EXPLORING

IV: THE MARAUDERS

V: THE PEARLY FISH

VI: THE MAN-ROACH

VII: THE RASPER

VIII: THE ANGLER’S END

IX: THE WEDDING FESTIVAL

X: IN THE MARSH

XI: TERROR

XII: GRIM DEVELOPS

XIII: A FIGHT WITH AN OTTER

XIV: THE ANGLER FROM TOWN

XV: LUCK


ILLUSTRATIONS

A wild chase was going on in the depths, and where it passed the rushes bowed their sheaves.

With a hiss it curves its neck and turns the foil upwards, snapping and biting at its tormentors.

She snaps eagerly at the nearest “worm,” but it escapes her by adroitly curling up.

The bird darts upon her from behind with outstretched claws, and drives them with full force into her back.