438 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



it has adapted itself to the change, and in two or three years 

 stocked to overflowing these new locations. As a pan-fish, 

 for the table, it is surpassed by few other fresh-water species. 

 For endurance and rapidity of increase it is unequaled. * * 

 The Grass Bass is perfectly adapted to stocking ponds. It will 

 thrive without care in very small ponds of sufficient depth. * * 

 It will in nowise interfere with the cultivation of any number 

 of species, large or small, in the same waters. It will live 

 harmoniously with all others, and while its structure and 

 disposition restrain it from attacking any other but very small 

 fry, its formidable armature of spinous rays in the dorsal and 

 abdominal fins will guard it against the attacks of even the 

 voracious pike." 



