Touch 3 1 5 



part, wherein one of the fingers must scratch or 

 tickle the belly of the fish, to make the hypnotism 

 more complete. 



In the foregoing notes I have taken our Eastern 

 brook trout {fonthialis) as the object lesson, that 

 fish being best known to me, but all that has been 

 written will apply equally well to the other species 

 of charr-trouts living in fluvial waters. The 

 reader will, I hope, take what I have written as 

 the expression only of opinion, based on personal 

 experience and observation. I do not intend it 

 to be in the least degree dogmatic. 



