THE TROUT. 



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and the sun gets sufficient power to warm and in- 

 vigorate the elements, then the Trout seems to take 

 a new lease of his life, leaving his hiding-place, and 

 getting among the gravel in rapid parts of the streams, 

 aad, with much hearty rubbing, speedily gets rid of 

 his troublesome and filthy companions, who have so 

 long infested, or stuck to him, and then soon recovers 

 his former shape and colours. Among Trout, it is said, 

 there a few barren females ; and though these females 

 do not conduce to replenish the waters, yet they are 

 always fat, and fit for the table. There are several 

 species of Trout : the flesh of some is of a» pink co- 

 lour, others yellowish ; and the flesh of the large Trout, 

 found in tide-rivers, is nearly white. In Ireland, they 

 speak of Trout whose stomachs are as thick as a 

 fowl's gizzard. In some parts of Wales, Trout are 

 found to be all crooked in the lower part of their 

 bodies, &c. &c. 



