46 FISH HATCHIXG. 



cry of interfering with the milHng jDOwers has 

 made it a dead letter/' The same thins; 

 happens to trout. I picked one up at Car- 

 shalton, killed by a decided scalp wound 

 from a mill-wheel. 



Second, fish eat the eggs, and these not 

 only minor fish but tro\it, wdio w^ait below 

 the nest and scramble for the eggs, like bo^^s 

 scrambling for coppers ; nor am I certain 

 but that the trout will actually go and rout 

 for what eggs they can manage to pick up 

 Old of the nest, for Andrew^ the keeper at 

 Hampton, has seen them w^ith their noses 

 grubbing in the nests, and their tails project- 

 ing out of the w^ater, like so many sharks' fins 

 out at sea. I have myself taken trout eggs 

 from a trout's mouth, and so have other 

 observers, for Mr. Woodcock writes as fol- 



