16 THE WONDERFUL TROUT 



Now, as regards the age of trout, possibly 

 indeed, almost certainly at the time Stewart 

 wrote, there were not so many opportunities 

 of proving the ages of trout (v. p. 19); and 

 subsequent experiments and experiences 

 both of our own hatcheries, and our own 

 streams (and lochs and ponds), and even 

 more so of such as have been instituted in 

 some of our colonies at the Antipodes and 

 elsewhere, tell us much more than Stewart 

 then knew. We will only instance a few 

 examples known in our own experience or 

 obtained from what we consider thoroughly 

 reliable sources, e.g. 



A trout nineteen years in confinement was 

 seen by us in 1892. It was confined in a 

 drain close to the then-gamekeeper's house 

 on Castle Grant estates, near Grantown. 

 This fish was taken originally from Loch-an- 

 Dorb, along with others, and all except this 

 one were conveyed to the ponds at Cullen 

 House. This one had been overlooked and 

 came back in the carrier-tin. Mr. Temple- 

 ton, the keeper of long years' service in the 

 Seafield family had kept and fed it for nearly 

 twenty years, until it became so tame as to 



