NATURE'S CALENDAR 



necks are swollen, and their tempers so 

 uncertain that now and then they will 

 charge even a man, should they encounter 

 him, not only stabbing with the antlers, 

 but striking viciously with the fore-hoofs. 

 In the clear cool water of the northern 

 ponds and streams, now, the salmonoid 

 fishes are depositing their spawn— sal- 

 mon, trout, winninish, and the rest. The 

 trout begin to spawn about the second 

 week of the month, and continue doing 

 so all winter. "In midsummer," to quote 

 a pleasant summary of trout -life once 

 written by the late G. Brown Goode, 

 "they lie in the bottoms of the lakes 

 cooled by springs, in the channels of 

 streams, or in deep pools, lurking behind 

 rocks and among roots. In spring and 

 early summer they feed industriously 

 among the rapids. At the approach of 

 cold weather in the autumn they hasten 

 to the clear, shallow water near the heads 

 of the streamlets. It is at this time that 

 they deposit their eggs in little nests in 

 the gravel, which the mother -fish has 

 shaped with careful industry, fanning out 

 the finer particles with their tails, and 

 carrying the larger ones in their mouths. 

 After the eggs are laid the parent fish cov- 

 ers them with gravel and proceeds to ex- 

 cavate another nest. The same nests are 

 said to be revisited by the schools year 

 after year." 



" I hear out towards the middle [of 

 Walden Pond], or a dozen rods from me," 



October i6 



October 17 



