114 FISH HATCHING. 



entrance into their watery world. One of 

 these trout I thus assisted, it struck me, had 

 a very peculiar appearance, something wrong- 

 about the head. I put him in a small bottle, 

 and held him to the light. To my astonish- 

 ment, I found he had pink eyes yes, 

 regular pink eyes, like a white rabbit ; and 

 gentlemen who were with me confirmed 

 my observation. In other respects he was 

 like the other water babies. I was curious to 

 see if he would turn out an albino, for who- 

 ever yet heard of an albino fish? Unfortu- 

 nately he soon died. 



But of all clumsy performers commend me 

 to the baby charr. Most of the charr eggs 

 persisted in half hatching, that is, the young 

 fish protruded his head and great staring 

 eyes out of the egg-shell, and there became 



