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continually with mice and moles in their stomachs. They 

 are cannibals also, for when pulling in a little fellow, 

 about 5 inches long, in the Causapsacol, it was seized by a 

 monster about 5 Ibs. weight. In fact, they eat anything 

 and everything, pork, beef, partridge, fish, mice ; nothing 

 comes amiss. I have made my biggest bags on a worn- 

 out old salmon fly, with a junk of pork attached, a bait 

 somewhat resembling the " chicken and ham for one " of 

 the restaurant. Again, the British brook trout, as a rule, 

 leaves the lakes and spawns in the brooks. The Canadian 

 brook trout adopts just the opposite course ; he leaves the 

 brooks, which become jammed up with ice in the winter, 

 and runs down to the lakes. In the shallow sandy edges of 

 the lakes in the end of October and 1st of November I 

 have seen large shoals of spawning fish, many of them 

 with their backs out of water. This is harvest time for 

 the otter, the kingfisher, and the Canada jay. In the 

 Nepisiguit the brook trout is gravid about September 20, 

 and on the rood early in October. The hauls of brook trout 

 that can be made on the Bay of Chaleur rivers and lakes 

 passes all belief. At a deep hole in the Upper Nepisiguit, 

 called the Devil's Elbow, an American made a bet that he 

 could catch 400 Ibs. weight in one day with hook and line, 

 and won his bet. It is remarkable how the colouring of the 

 trout is adapted to the colour of the water they frequent. 

 A brown-coloured fish would be a conspicuous object in 

 the beautifully clear water of the Kestigouche, so we find 

 the trout in it pure silver. Again, a silvery fish would be 

 a very conspicuous object, and would therefore run in- 

 creased risks of capture in the darker coloured lakes and 

 streams in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, where we 



