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till I made him " rein back," toucliing his 

 nose with the camel-hair brush. The cmming 

 fish then, by swimming round and round, at 

 last found that he could go round the end of 

 the zinc (which did not touch the side of the 

 vessel), so he simply " sneaked through the 

 gap " and got well into his place again. The 

 last jump he made was at the end of the 

 upper basin — where the w^ater is made to 

 drop by means of a bit of cotton lamp-wick 

 into the lower basin. Twice did this plucky 

 little salmon go fiercely at (to him) this for- 

 midable cataract ; twice he fell back again ; 

 the third time, however, I helped him over 

 with a lift in the rear with the brush, and he 

 took a tremendous drop in among his cousin 

 salmon, who w^ere hatching out in the basin 

 below ; there he now remains, and as he has 



