I sat down beside him, and asked if he remembered a certain small boy who had used to draw dace out of his mill-pond.
"The Delectable Duchy"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
For when the silly dace try to be caught and hope to be caught, he is a foolish pike who cannot gorge them.
"The Ancien Regime"
Charles Kingsley
Two-score trouts and a multitude of dace and chubs were taken.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson