278 DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



If you want to see whether trout notice sounds, creep up 

 cautiously, with a bell and revolver, to where you can see 

 them without their seeing you, then scream with all your 

 might, ring the bell, and fire the pistol. If they do not see 

 any of your motions, they will not move a fin. 



Tricks with Trout Eggs, other Fish, Muskrats, 



ETC., ETC. 



If you want to have trout eggs hatch in the summer, 

 keep them on ice for six months. If you want to hatch 

 them in a month, keep a stream of warmish water running 

 over them. This you can do by bedding the supply-pipe 

 in a bank of fresh horse-manure. Make the pipe small, 

 and give it several turns in the bank. 



If you want to see a trout-egg hatch, take one that is 

 just ready to break the shell and put it in warm water, say 

 at 70°, the warmth will often stimulate the embryo into 

 breaking the shell. 



If you want to drive alevins from a particular corner 

 where they have collected, pour a few cups of water over 

 the spot, which will drive them away, then fill in with whit- 

 ish gravel, which will keep them away to some extent. 



If a trout, not over two and a half inches long, strikes 

 at a black spider in the water, the spider will strike back 

 at him, and if he takes a good aim will kill the trout in- 

 stantaneously. The little fellow will not go twelve inches 

 before he turns over on his back and drops down dead. 



If you throw small balls, made of the fisher's berry 

 {CocchIks indiciis)^ into the water, the fish will eat it, be- 

 come poisoned, and rise to the surface dead. 



If you have occasion to carry live bullheads* any dis- 



* The bullhead {Pimelodus) is very tenacious of life. Fisher- 

 men often, by a half-dissecting and half-flaying process, take the 

 meat out of a bullhead's body for their chowder, leaving only 

 the head, skin, and fins. This more than eviscerated shell of a 



