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During the latter part of September, 1882, John and 

 I put eighty trout in a fair-sized pond in North- western 

 Maine, having neither outlet nor inlet. It was well 

 stocked with minnows and other trout food, but con- 

 tained no trout. The water was clear, cool, and quite 

 deep. Though John says three or four of these trout 

 would then weigh a pound and a half, my own recollec- 

 tion is that none exceeded one and a quarter pounds; 

 we both agree that few, if any of them, weighed less 

 than one pound. They were all taken in two days and 

 at one locality, and enough of them were actually 

 weighed at the time to preclude all uncertainty in this 

 respect, except as above stated. On June 1, 1883, we 

 added thirty-six to their number, the largest of which 

 weighed just two and a half pounds. I have no mem- 

 orandum as to the others, though they were actually 

 weighed at the time, but we agree that not one was of 

 less than one pound, while the majority approximated 

 two pounds, some a little more and some a little less 

 than that weight. 



On the morning of September 27, 1884, John sug- 

 gested we should visit the pond, and see, if possible, how 

 they were getting on. It was something of a job, since 

 the distance was considerable, and moreover it would be 

 necessary to carry a boat quite a portion of the way 

 through the woods, and that without a trail. Though 

 whether anything would be accomplished seemed prob- 

 lematical, since one hundred and thirteen fish in a pond 

 of that size does not allow very many to the superficial 

 foot ; still we might find them, and the possibility war- 

 ranted the effort. 



At the expense of considerable perspiration on both 

 our parts the pond was reached, and while he paddled 



