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weakly when we turned in our young fish) 



Each fish immediately sought out a resting 



or a hiding place, behind a stone or bit 



of weed — for be it remarked as a curious 



fact, that young trout are not gregarious — 



and there he took up his position as hajopy as 



a fish could be. As regards what became 



afterwards of these very fish, Mr. Ponder 



writes me thus : — " Among the advantages 



of early turning into the river must be 



reckoned that of rapid growth. Some of 



those which you and I turned in were, after 



only nine days, found to be tliree or four 



times larger than those of same age left behind 



in the troughs." 



Andrew, the keeper, has also seen several 

 of these young trout on the shallows at a 

 different place. " One of these," he says. 



