SPRINGS 



the fishes. They probably find them out and make 

 much of them. The trout certainly do. Find a 

 place in the creek where a spring issues, or where 

 it flows into it from a near bank, and vou have 

 found a most likely place for trout. They deposit 

 their spawn there in the fall, warm their noses there 

 in winter, and cool themselves there in summer. I 

 have seen the patriarchs of the tribe of an old and 

 much-fished stream, seven or eight enormous fel- 

 lows, congregated in such a place. The boys found 

 it out, and went with a bag and bagged them all. 

 In another place a trio of large trout, that knew 

 and despised all the arts of the fishermen, took up 

 their abode in a deep, dark hole in the edge of the 

 wood, that had a spring flowing into a shallow part 

 of it. In midsummer they were wont to come out 

 from their safe retreat and bask in the spring, their 

 immense bodies but a few inches under water. A 

 youth, who had many times vainly sounded their 

 dark hiding-place with his hook, happening to come 

 along with his rifle one day, shot the three, one 

 after another, killing them by the concussion of the 

 bullet on the water immediately over them. 



The ocean itself is known to possess springs, 

 copious ones, in many places the fresh water rising 

 up through the heavier salt as through a rock, and 

 affording supplies to vessels at the surface. Off the 

 coast of Florida many of these submarine springs 

 have been discovered, the outlet, probably, of the 

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