36 FTSH HATCHING. 



torn away in some fierce conflict with an 

 angler, had summarily retired from the 

 service for want of a Chelsea Hospital. 



The cause of his death w^as doubtless j)ure 

 exhaustion ; there w^as no actual disease 

 about his body, save and except "bad 

 places " on his scale armour. "Whether these 

 were wounds caused by his mining oj^era- 

 tions in guarding his wife's nest, or simply 

 constitutional, I am unable to state for 

 certain. Mr. C4eorge, of Worcester, sent me, 

 moreover, the head of a second spent-salmon, 

 in which the skin is quite worn off the 

 bottom of the louver jaw. The injury in this 

 case I really think, from its appearance — and 

 my idea is confirmed by the opinion of others 

 — was caused by friction against the stones 

 when nest-making. 



