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trodden paths by every stream in Maine, in New York, and 

 in Michigan. I know of but one river in North America 

 by the side of which you will find no paper collar or other 

 evidence of civilization. It is the Nameless River. Not 

 that trout will cease to be. They will be hatched by 

 machinery and raised in ponds, and fattened on chopped 

 liver, and grow flabby and lose their spots. The trout of 



FIG. no. THE RAINBOW TROUT. 



From Kellogg's Zoology. 



the restaurant will not cease to be. He is no more like 

 the trout of the wild river than the fat and songless rice 

 bird is like the bobolink. Gross feeding and easy pond 

 life enervate and deprave him. The trout that the chil- 

 dren will know only by legend is the gold-sprinkled living 

 arrow of the white water, able to zigzag up the cataract, 

 able to loiter in the rapids, whose dainty meat is the glanc- 

 ing butterfly." MYRON W. REED. 



The Flatfishes. As an example of this group we may 

 select the flounder found along the Altantic coast. These 

 fishes keep near the bottom, swimming on one side, and 

 the two eyes are both on the side that is uppermost. Per- 

 haps the most interesting fact concerning these odd fishes 

 is their development. At first they are symmetrical, with 



