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caught, to our great surprise, some twenty or 

 thirty, weighing one with another nearly or quite 

 a pound each. 



We were altogether at a loss to understand 

 what could have led to their attaining this unusual 

 size, until we found that about that number, which 

 had been taken out of another pond, and after- 

 wards for some time incarcerated in a tank in the 

 stable-yard, had been turned in there. The change 

 from the short commons on which they had been 

 kept in the tank, to the more liberal fare furnished 

 by their new quarters, added to the fact that the 

 pond, from being of comparatively recent construc- 

 tion, afforded an extra supply of food, had doubt- 

 less been the simple causes to which this increase 

 in their growth was attributable. 



Besides these Roach and a quantity of others 

 of the ordinary size, we also caught the same day 

 as many, I think, as eight or ten carp, weighing 

 perhaps three to five pounds each, some eels, and 

 (unintentionally) two or three Trout, (part of a lot 

 which had been recently introduced,) so that that 

 morning's work is impressed on my memory as 

 altogether about the most productive bit of pond- 

 fishing that I ever had. 



The Trout, which it was hoped might have 



