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tliey will be choice eating even after seyeral 

 days of transi)ortation. 



The three boxes contained abont 100 tront, 

 Aveighing in the aggregate 150 ponnds, vary- 

 ing from half a ponnd to eight i^omids each. 

 Their exhibition produced great astonishment, 

 as many who witnessed the sight had never been 

 accustomed to see brook trout weighing over 

 two or three pounds. Nearly all readily admit- 

 ted that these specimens went ahead of any thing 

 they had even heard of before, as to size and 

 beauty 5 but one or two made a show of doubt- 

 ing that they were the real brook trout, calling 

 them salmon, salmon trout, lake trout, &c., or 

 anything but brook trout, so reluctant were they 

 to admit fairly, that their great 3 or 4 pound 

 trout, caught some forty or fifty years ago, 

 should at last be thrown so completely in the 

 shade ; but it was of no nse, " seeing was 

 believing," and the situation had to be accepted. 



The writer presented an 8 pounder to Dr. 

 Alex. B. Mott, who was not a little suri)rised at 

 the size of the gift. The Doctor afterwards 

 told how he had him served np for supper, 

 warmed ni> for breakfast, hashed up for dinner, 

 and bade him farewell only at the fourth meal. 



