114 PISH HATCHING. 



entrance into their watery world. One of 

 these trout I thus assisted, it struck me, had 

 a very pecuHar appearance, something wrong 

 about the head. I j^ut him in a small bottle, 

 and held him to the light. To my astonish- 

 ment, I found he had pink eyes — yes, 

 regular pink eyes, like a white rabbit ; and 

 o-entlemen who were with me confirmed 



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my observation. In other respects he was 

 like the other water babies. I was curious to 

 see if he would turn out an albino, for who- 

 ever yet heard of an alhiiio JiskF Unfortu- 

 nately he soon died. 



But of all clumsy performers commend me 

 to the baby charr. Most of the charr eggs 

 persisted in /lalf hatching, that is, the young 

 fish i3rotruded his head and great staring 

 eyes out of the egg-shell, and there became 



