VI THE WONDERFUL TROUT 



And if he had, would scientia have been 

 better forwarded than it is now ? This strain- 

 ing after perfection is a great loss to science, 

 though we do not advocate the other extreme 

 of unripe, unthought-out data. The happy 

 medium, of course, is hard to hit. 



This may seem a pretentious Preface to a 

 ' littel worke^ but we hope there may appear 

 in it at least a germ of sensibility. 



DUNIPACE, LAKBERT, 

 28th Sept. 1898. 



