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have been fishing two weeks and caught these brook-trout every 

 day, and then I would catch sea-trout. I have been fishing all 

 the time and caught the same kind of fish, and up comes another 

 kind as different as a black sheep is from a white one. I have 

 continued fishing, and caught no more of these bright fish, but 

 caught the dark ones until the fall. That, in my mind, seems to 

 establish the fact that this fish is distinct and separate from the 

 other. 



Mr. Wilmot : May I ask you whether the fish that you were 

 catching at the mouth of these little streams were not invariably 

 small fish ? 



Mr. Hallock : They would weigh from a pound to a pound 

 and a half. 



Mr. Wilmot : The others would weigh three or four pounds ? 



Mr. Hallock : Yes, sir. 



Mr. Wilmot : But a large majority that you caught at the 

 mouths of these streams were small ones ? 



Mr. Hallock : I will stand corrected, and never rise again 

 on this floor if Mr. Wilmot will tell me why those fish don't 

 come together. 



Mr. Wilmot : It is upon the same principle precisely that 

 little children do not want to associate with men. These little 

 fish can get all the food they want for their sustenance at the 

 outlets of these little streams, and when they begin to get larger 

 the requirements of their nature demand a larger supply of 

 food, and they drop down the river until they get to the larger 

 bodies where they get a larger amount of food, but they are 

 compelled to return to the streams by instinct, to produce their 

 young. Nature teaches them to go to their breeding-grounds. 

 They pass by these little fish on their route upwards to the 

 branches of the river, while these little fish as they grow larger 



