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knowing-looking fish ; the trout is also smart 

 and very active, flying about the water like a 

 transparent tadpole ; but poor little charr is 

 a delicate one. His body is like a slip of 

 white isinglass ; his umbilical vesicle is like 

 a water-drop on a cabbage leaf. He tries 

 his best to live, but he and his brethren 

 more often fail than succeed in the attempt. 

 If, however, they do manage to get through 

 the first few days of their lives pretty well, 

 they are, I think on the whole, afterwards 

 more hardy than the salmon or the trout. 

 There are numbers of them now alive and 

 well in a ditch near Mr. Ponder's hatching 

 boxes at Hampton. 



Out of one lot of Rhine salmon which were 

 a first-class lot of eggs, I hatched several, but 

 lost more. The eggs were (if I may use the 



