46 FISH HATCHING. 



cry of interfering with the milling powers has 

 made it a dead letter/' The same thing 

 happens to trout. I picked one up at Car- 

 shalton, killed by a decided scalp wound 

 from a mill-wheel. 



Second, fish eat the eggs, and these not 

 only minor fish but trout, who wait below 

 the nest and scramble for the eggs, like boys 

 scrambling for coppers ; nor am I certain 

 but that the trout will actually go and rout 

 for what eggs they can manage to pick up 

 out of the nest, for Andrew, the keeper at 

 Hampton, has seen them with their noses 

 grubbing in the nests, and their tails project- 

 ing out of the water, like so many sharks' fins 

 out at sea. I have myself taken trout eggs 

 from a trout's mouth, and so have other 

 observers, for Mr. Woodcock writes as fol- 



