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little brains. The brain of the fish is quite 

 sufficient to keep him off the professor's 

 hook, angle he never so wisely. There is a 

 story told of a trout at Hampton, which is of 

 a fabulous weight. This fish has been so 

 often angled for, that he is said not only to 

 recognise a spinning bait the instant it passes 

 over his house, but that from long experience 

 he even knows who made the tackle. 



As regards the ombre chevalier, or charr, 

 living in the Thames, it has been stated, 

 upon good authority, that the ombre cheva- 

 lier resides only in lakes and very deep calm 

 waters ; but we were assured by M. Coumes, 

 at his visit to Hampton, that this fish has 

 been introduced with success in the rivers 

 of France, and that he considered that tho 

 Thames would prove equally suitable to it. 



