Touch 3 1 5 



part, wherein one of the fingers must scratch or 

 tickle the belly of the fish, to make the hypnotism 

 more complete. 



In the foregoing notes I have taken our Eastern 

 brook trout (fontinalis) as the object lesson, that 

 fish being best known to me, but all that has been 

 written will apply equally well to the other species 

 of charr-trouts living in fluvial waters. The 

 reader will, I hope, take what I have written as 

 the expression only of opinion, based on personal 

 experience and observation. I do not intend it 

 to be in the least degree dogmatic. 



