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expression) not strong eggs. The young fish 

 inside attained proper size, and managed 

 to burst his shell ; but then he could not 

 uncoil his tail, but gave up his chance, turning- 

 white, like a bit of boiled white of egg. 



Some of another lot of salmon were strong 

 fish. I woke one of them up, the other day, 

 who was apparently quietly reposing fast 

 asleep on the gravel in the apparatus I had 

 in my barrack room. He jumped up with a 

 start, and went straight at the perforated zinc 

 fence which divided him from the charr eggs ; 

 he cleared it (the top is just below the level 

 of the water) like a greyhound. He then 

 charged the next fence, also of zinc (between 

 the charr and the salmon-trout), miscalculated 

 his distance, and ran his head right into one 

 of the holes of the zinc, where it stuck fast 



