MIDGES FOE FISH. 151 



" After the bag was absorbed they became 

 very handsome httle fish, but we were quite 

 puzzled how to feed them, as we could not 

 devise any food small enough for them to 

 swallow. We tried them with trout roe and 

 several other substances, but we found all too 

 lai'ge for them, and they must have lived on 

 some small animalculse which kept them alive ; 

 but, although the little fish were brisk, they 

 grew very slowly indeed after the bag was 

 absorbed. They were supplied every day with 

 fresh water from the Tay, running through 

 a tap. They were hatched in the beginning 

 of April, and in June some of them were 

 getting larger. I had then the skin of an 

 enormous eel, about seven or eight feet long, 

 which had been sent me (with a grilse that 

 it had swallowed) from Mr. Buist's fishings 



